 | North American review - 1923 - 874 pages
...distinguished poets as being the true stuff of poetry. How many miles to Babylon? Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. Its merit appears to be generally accepted, but when I first came to ask where this merit lies, the... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1923 - 556 pages
...rhyme which seemed to me to epitomize a life journey: "How many miles to Babylon? Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, and back again." If Babylon in this case were a kind of symbol of all one longed to hear and learn and experience, then... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter, Dwight Everett Watkins - American poetry - 1925 - 296 pages
...thinks of her grown-up son still as a little child. "How far is it to Babylon? —Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light ? Yes, and back again." And while the nurse hummed the old, old, rhyme, Tucking him in at evening time, He dreamed how when... | |
 | American poetry - 1925 - 1186 pages
...unclouded skies. Virginia McCormkk THE ROAD TO BABYLON " How far is it to Babylon? — Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again." And while nurse hummed the old, old rhyme, Tucking him in at evening time, He dreamed how when he grew... | |
 | Robert Graves - English poetry - 1925 - 298 pages
...distinguished poets as being the true stuff of poetry : How many miles to Babylon ? Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light ? Yes, and back again. Its_merits_ap_rjears to be generally accepted, but whenT first came to ask where this merit lies, rg.... | |
 | Olive Beaupré Miller - Children's literature - 1920 - 466 pages
...pans," Say the bells of St. Ann's. LJTOVV many miles is it to Babylon? *• •*• Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again ! If your heels are nimble and light, You may get there by candle-light. AS I was going to St. Ives,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - American poetry - 1920 - 208 pages
...my knees. The Nation Ida O'Neil THE ROAD TO BABYLON "How far is it to Babylon? — Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. " And while nurse hummed the old, old rhyme, Tucking him in at evening time, He dreamed how when he... | |
 | Yee Chiang - Art - 1964 - 298 pages
...It is like the English rhyme that you teach your children: 'How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again!' But a law that the painter takes for granted, the poet often transforms into a fantasy. There is one... | |
 | Mother Goose - Children's poetry, English - 1970 - 148 pages
...staring fool, Bora in the woods to be scar'd by an owl ? How many miles to Babylon ? Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light ? Yes, and back again. Rock-a-bye, baby, Your cradle is green, Father's a nobleman, Mother's a queen, And Belly's n lady.... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 394 pages
...rhyme. The rhyme Stephen quotes from has only one stanza: How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You may get there by candle-light.6 The reference again provides... | |
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How MANY miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. 
