 COME to me, O ye children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the sun, Where thoughts are singing swallows And the brooks of morning run.  The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 106by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1899 - 456 pages
...children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the...wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah I what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us... | |
 | Louise Jordan Miln - Children - 1899 - 656 pages
...children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. "Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the...the wind of autumn, And the first fall of the snow. " Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Albert Le Roy Bartlett - English language - 1899 - 328 pages
...you at your play." 9. " In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine, In your thoughts the brooklets flow ; But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of snow." 10. " Let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country's, thy God's, and Truth's. 11. The sun... | |
 | Albert Le Roy Bartlett - English language - 1899 - 328 pages
...best ? " 10. Many a boy values the Bible that his mother gave him, because she gave it to him. II. " In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine, In your thoughts [is] the brooklet's flow." 12. As a pinch of lampblack will soil the whitest fabric, so idle gossip... | |
 | Albert Le Roy Bartlett - English language - 1899 - 336 pages
...best ? " 10. Many a boy values the Bible that his mother gave him, because she gave it to him. 11. " In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine, In your thoughts [is] the brooklet's flow." 12. As a pinch of lampblack will soil the whitest fabric, so idle gossip... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1900 - 236 pages
...children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the...the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. 191 Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - English language - 1900 - 360 pages
...various poems. 2. The Poem "Children." The poet's tenderness for all children may be seen in this poem. " Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the...singing swallows, And the brooks of morning run." What does he say is in the hearts of children ? Many great thinkers have said that there is poetry... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1900 - 454 pages
...children I For I hear you at your play, And the questions which have vexed me Have vanished quite away. In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine, In your thoughts the brooklets flow ; But in mine is the wind of autumn, And the first fall of the snow. Come to me, O ye... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1901 - 704 pages
...children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplex me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the...wind of autumn, And the first fall of the snow. Ah I what would the world be to us If the children were no more? \Ve should dread the desert behind us... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1901 - 728 pages
...children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplex me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the...brooklet's flow; But in mine is the wind of autumn, And tht i1rst fall of the snow. Ah I what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should... | |
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