 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 548 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...brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks helow Come to me, O ye children I And whisper in my ear Whatthe birds and the windsare singim In your... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behin 1 us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children 1 And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1883 - 320 pages
...world be to us If the ehildren were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the durk before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light...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... | |
 | William Walters - Christian life - 1883 - 208 pages
...little children ! Then, children are of value to the world. They are .among its richest blessings. "What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below." Through all the successive generations of mankind, children are the world's hope; We know not what... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 626 pages
...us, If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened...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... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 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...food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been harden'd into wood, — That to the world are children : Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 394 pages
...are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been harden'd into wood, — That to the world are children : Through...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children! And whisper in my ear II.— 11 What the birds and the winds are singing... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 pages
...snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more * We should dread the Hesert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves...forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and teiuHr juices Have been hardened into wood, — That to thi world are chiHren ; Through them it feels... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 356 pages
...world be to ue If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind uğ Worse than tho dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food^ Ere their sweet and tciidir juices Have been hardened into wood,— That to the world are children ; Through them it feels... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - Families - 1884 - 224 pages
...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... | |
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