 Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal...  The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood - Page 623by Thomas Hood - 1906 - 773 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " O! but for one short hour — A respite however brief I No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A 1 ittle weeping would ease my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 676 pages
...sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! J Cowper feelingly notes how those who never pass their brick-wall bounds to range the fields and... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want. And the walk that...tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and tbread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...nbttvo my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour To feel ax 1 used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that...respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or TTope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bnt only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! ") With fingers weary and •worn, With eyelids heavy and red, ale wollten fie mir geigen il; ru... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...leisure for Love or Поре, liut only time for fïrief ! A little weeping would case my heart ; liut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !' With fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly nure, Plying her... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pages
...sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour, To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal!" work-house. Those who do such high sounding charities " have received their reward." The impoverished... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *) 0 hot for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...sky above my bead, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel,' Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " Ob but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...above my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour • To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
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