 | Barry Cornwall - 1853 - 300 էջ
...four lines of the first stanza, indeed, describing a mother and her child, are tender and graceful. ' She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, She rock-ed it, and rat-ed it, until on her it smiled: Then she did say, Now have I found the proverb true to prove, That falling... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - 1853 - 302 էջ
...four lines of the first stanza, indeed, describing a mother and her child, are tender and graceful. ' She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, She rock-ed it, and rat-ed it, until on her it smiled : Then she did say, Now have I found the proverb true to prove, That falling... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 էջ
...In going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept, I heard a wife sing to her child that long before had wept ; She sighed sore, and sang full sweet...watch, and grieved with her child ; She rocked it aud rated it until on her it smiled ; Then did she say, ' Now have I found the present true to prove,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 էջ
...In going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept, I heard a wife sing to her child that long before had wept ; She sighed sore, and sang full sweet...still in sucking at her breast. She was full weary of ber watch, and grieved with her child ; She rocked it and rated it until on her it smiled ; Then did... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 էջ
...IN going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept, I heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept. She sighed sore, and sang full sweet,...grieved with her child ; She rocked it, and rated it, until on her it smiled ; Then did she say : " Now have I found the proverb true to prove, The falling... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 էջ
...IN going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept, I heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept; She sighed sore, and sang full sweet,...to rest, That would not cease, but cried still, in suckmg at her breast. She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, She rocked it and... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 էջ
...going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept, -1- I heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept. She sighed sore, and sang full sweet,...grieved with her child; She rocked it, and rated it, until on her it smiled; Then did she say, "Now have I found the proverb true to prove, The falling... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1870 - 1044 էջ
...heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept : She sighed sore, and sang full sweete, to bring the babe to rest. That would not cease, but...cried still, in sucking at her breast. She was full wearie of her watch, and greeved with her childe ; She rocked it, and rated it, till that onheritsmilde,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1871 - 492 էջ
...would not ceafe, but cried ftil, in lucking at her breft. She was full wearie of her watch, and greeued with her child ; She rocked it, and rated it, till that on her it fmilde: Then did me fay, now haue I found this prouerbe true to proue, The falling out of faithfull... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 էջ
...In going to my naked bed, as one that would hare slept, I heard a wife sing to her child that long before had wept ; She sighed sore, and sang full sweet...grieved with her child ; She rocked it and rated it until on her it smiled ; Then did she say, ' Now have I found the present true to prove, The falling... | |
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That would, not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast. She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child; She rocked it and rated it, until on her it smiled : Then did she say, " Now have I found the proverb true to prove, The falling... 
