 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1900 - 1250 sivua
...was politically as inevitably a serf to the soil as if it wore the feudal iron collar on its neck. " 'For oh,' say the children, 'we are weary And we cannot...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our_ knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall upon our faces, trying to go. And underneath our... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1900 - 584 sivua
...the mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coalshadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! VI i For oh,' say the children, ' we are weary, And we...the stooping, We fall upon our faces, trying to go; 70 And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1900 - 298 sivua
...by the kirk-chime ! It is good when it happens,' say the children, ' That we die before our time. ' For oh,' say the children, ' we are weary, And we...leap— If we cared for any meadows, it were merely We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, To drop down in them... | |
 | Robert Davies Roberts - 1901 - 296 sivua
...Barrett Browning, a few years later, gave a still more pitiful expression to the cry of the children : "For oh!" say the children, "we are weary And we cannot...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. For all day we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground : Or, all day, we drive the... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1901 - 406 sivua
...weeping bitterly. They are weeping in the play-time of the others In the country of the free. ****** ' For oh ! ' say the children, ' we are weary, And we...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep.' ****** They look up with their pale and sunken faces, And their look is dread to see, For they mind... | |
 | Robert Davies Roberts - 1901 - 306 sivua
...Browning, a few years later, gave a still more pitiful expression to the cry of the children : " For oh I " say the children, " we are weary And we cannot run...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them 'and sleep. For all day we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground : Or, all day, we drive the... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 sivua
...a-iiear the mine? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coalshadows, From your pleasures fair and fine! '' 901 fared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the... | |
 | Benjamin Wood - 1901 - 200 sivua
...kirk-chime. It is good when it happens" say the children, " That we die before our time." " For O," say the children, "we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; I/ we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. 156 Our knees tremble sorely... | |
 | James Richard Joy - 1902 - 302 sivua
...anear the mine? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine! For oh," say the children, "we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; If we car'd for any meadows it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. '0, Our kne*es tremble sorely... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1903 - 228 sivua
...coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! VI " For oh," say the children, " we are weary, 65 And we cannot run or leap ; If we cared for any meadows,...the stooping, We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; 70 And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For,... | |
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we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. 
