 Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...  The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 106by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 298 pages
...And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate, That reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children, And whisper in my ear What the birds and... | |
 | Preaching - 1872 - 784 pages
...truer, and purer because of children, and can echo the words which one who loves them has sung — " What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below." III. If, as we have seen, good books are such great blessings, it follows that children should strive... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...thoughts the brooklet's flow ; Ah ! what would the world be to us, If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of bur books, When compared... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us, If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my car What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Ingelow. 374. CHILDREN, Pleasure of. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more Î We lion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams,...silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the Come to me, О ye children I And whisper in my enr What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | William Reid - Child rearing - 1872 - 246 pages
...joy of our own infant years. " Ah ! what would the world be to us, I f the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us, Worse than the...Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunk below." No wonder, then, if amid the din of daily toil, and even the allurements of public life,... | |
 | 1872 - 778 pages
...truer, and purer because of children, and can echo the words which one who loves them has sung— " What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...Have been hardened into wood,— That to the world arc children ; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 360 pages
...And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Shipley - 1873 - 408 pages
...And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1874 - 190 pages
...truer, and purer because of children, and can echo the words which one who loves them has sung— " What the leaves are to the forest. With light and...and sunnier climate, Than reaches the trunks below." If, as we have seen, good books are such great blessings, it follows that children should strive to... | |
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