 How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your...  Letters Concerning Taste - Seite 98von John Gilbert Cooper - 1755 - 143 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 Seiten
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I " with a glance at Kyrle— "And I go wooing with the boys." "And this," thought young Kyrle, in the... | |
 | English poetry - 1880 - 486 Seiten
...their mothers features. To hear them lisp their mothers tongue. And when with envy time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys. You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go a wooing in my boys. XIV.— THE WITCH OF WOKEY WAS published in a small collection of poems,... | |
 | William Wallace Lee - 1881 - 196 Seiten
...will live a life of reason, And that's the ONLY life to live." " And when with envy Time transported . Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys." I would fain linger here, for the theme is very pleasant, but time is relentless,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 Seiten
...mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother'^ tongue ! And when with envy time, transported, ing to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore loud moans th I'll go a-wooing in my boys. AUTHOR UNKNOWN. HERMIONÉ. WHEREVER I wander, up and about, This is the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 Seiten
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tougue ! And when with envy Time transported age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Th I'll go wooing in my boys. ANONYMOUS AXD MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. I.")!) WHY SHOULD WE QUARREL FOR RICHES.... | |
 | 1881 - 210 Seiten
...mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. « And when with envy, Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Gilbert Cooper. Epithalamion. 143 EPITHALAMION. *#*#*#•** A \ J AKE now,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1881 - 426 Seiten
...their mother's features*, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy time transported. Shall think to rob us of our joys. You'll in your girls again be courted, Aud I'll go wooing in my boye, AKQïmtoi-8. ON OLD AGE. What, therefore, should I fear, if after death... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 Seiten
...mother's features. To hear them lisp their mother's tougui> '. And when with envy Time transported she dresses green and gay, To disperse our cares away. Ever charming, I'll go wooing in my boys. . ЛХ1) MISCELLANEOUS POKMS. WHY SHOULD WE QUARREL FOR RICHES. The choras... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 Seiten
...mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue ! And when with envy, time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in ray boys. ANONTMODB. Song. GATHER ye rose-buds as ye may, Old Time is still a-flying... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 Seiten
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys. You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Surely this is the sort of poetry that ought to be popular — to be sung... | |
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