 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 634 Seiten
...every part, Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt ; More he crowed, more we cried, Nature could... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1903 - 624 Seiten
...go, he must kiss Child and mother, baby bless, For he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old there's grief enough for thea SAMELA. Like to Diana in her summer weed, Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye, Goes fair... | |
 | 1881 - 674 Seiten
...draws us to a conclusion, and we can barely notice the beautiful song to a child, by Greene (p. 405). ' Weep not my wanton, smile upon my knee ;. When thou art old there's grief enough for thee,' a song which reminds us more than anything else in English literature of the exquisite 'Songs of Innocence,'... | |
 | 1882 - 122 Seiten
...every part, Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept; Mother cried, baby leapt: More he crowed, more we cried, Nature could... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 696 Seiten
...first did see Such a boy by him and me, He was glad, I was woe ; Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy....my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there 's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt ; More he... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 Seiten
...first did see Such a boy by him and me, He was glad, I was woe ; Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy....my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there 's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt ; More he... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1885 - 192 Seiten
...go, he must kiss Child and mother, baby bless, For he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When 'thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. ROBERT GREENE. PHILOMELA'S ODE THAT SHE SUNG IN HER ARBOUR. ITTING by a river side, Where a silent... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1885 - 190 Seiten
...first did see Such a boy by him and me, He was glad, I was woe : Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy. Weep not, my wanton, «mile upon my knee; When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. Streaming tears that never stint,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 Seiten
...this light Greene's ' Sephestia's Song to her Child,' from the ' Menophon '. The song opens thus— Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. There the stroke is made direct upon characteristic points of soothing, by means of the endearing 'wanton,'... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 632 Seiten
...first did see Such a boy by him and me, He was glad, I was woe, Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy Last his sorrow, first his joy....my knee. When thou art old there's grief enough for ihee. Streaming tears that never stint, Like pearl drops from a flint, Fell by course from his eyes,... | |
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When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee: When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. 
