 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...work, In the dull December light ; And work — work — work! When the weather is warm and bright : While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me wife the Spring. 9. "Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet ; Wife the sky... | |
 | 1863 - 150 pages
...the weather is warm and bright, While underneath the eaves the brooding swallows cling, As if to shew their sunny backs, and twit me with the Spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath of the primrose and cowslip sweet — With the sky above my head, and the grass beneath my feet, If only for... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...work ! In the dull December light ; And work ! work ! work ! When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1864 - 186 pages
...seen of the city, the more I have longed to be roaming in the country with my hazel stick. " I longed to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet." Grasping my hazel in my hand, I have visited the British Museum, with its almost endless curiosities,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1864 - 490 pages
...work, In the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " O ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1864 - 580 pages
...in a well-known passage, connects the swallow with the earlier of the two seasons : — " . . . .' underneath the eaves, The brooding swallows cling...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring." Hood's Song of Oic Shirt. ALFBED A iMri;. Alrewas, Lichfield. PSALM xc. 9. (3rd S. v. 57.)— The following... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1864 - 72 pages
...in the following sentences : — 1. The governor's servants told them to fire upon the soldiers. 2. The brooding swallows cling, as if to show me their sunny backs, and twit me with the spring. 3. The nurse, wishing to see the city, stepped ont of the boat. 4. The bleak wind of March made her... | |
 | 1865 - 410 pages
...breath Of the birds'-eye and honey-dew, Or to change the mild routine That I underwent with the crew. For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew that monotonous fare, That unchanging, incessant meal. " Oh ! for one minute more, To get my stretcher... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Ireland - 1865 - 428 pages
...work, work, In the dull December light, And work, work, work, When the weather is warm and bright, While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show their sunny backs, And twit me with their spring." THOMAS HOOD. LONDON: JACKSON, WALFORD, AND HODDER,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...work, In the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny bucks And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet... | |
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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! 
