 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1877 - 338 páginas
...MADAME GUVON. A A LITTLE BIRD I AM.* Written during her ten years' imprisonment in the Bastile. LITTLE bird I am, Shut from the fields of air, And in my...a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee ! Naught have I else to do, I sing the whole day long ; And He whom most I love to please Doth listen... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1877 - 348 páginas
...Him who placed me there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee ! Naught have I else to do, I sing the whole day long ; And He whom most I love to please Doth listen to my song ; * A free translation of the preceding poem. A He caught... | |
 | Philip Bennett Power - 1877 - 154 páginas
...embodied, during one of her imprisonments, in a touching little poem, which begins thus :— ' A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air ; And in my songs I sit and aing To Him who placed me there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it... | |
 | Robert MacDonald - 1879 - 710 páginas
...that joy which Thou givest to them that love Thee, in the midst of the greatest crosses. " A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air, And in my...Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleaseth thee." If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye ; for the spirit of glory... | |
 | Robert MacDonald - 1879 - 672 páginas
...that joy which Thou givest to them that love Thee, in the midst of the greatest crosses. " A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cage I git and sing To Him who placed me there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleaseth... | |
 | Mary Richards - 1880 - 234 páginas
...is always bright where my dear Jesus is!" — " A little bird I am, Shut out from fields of air, Yet in my cage I sit and sing To Him who placed me there....Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleaseth Thee. Nought have I else to do, I sing the whole day long, And He whom most I love to please... | |
 | mrs. Oliver Heywood - 1880 - 160 páginas
...smile, and she would commence singing — " A little bird I am, Shut out from the fields of air, But in my cage I sit and sing To Him who placed me there...— Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because my God it pleaseth Thee. " Nought else have I to do, I sing the whole day long, And He whom most I love to please... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 páginas
...petit oiseau. MAD: MP. GUV'-N. A LITTLE BIRD I AM. A FREE TRANSLATION OF THE PRECEDING POEM A LITTLE 5 P 'I 04!/C/ Pϲ T< oݾ2I s h p \ F "g f X ` ... ! dj t ? c +K "O# WÆg t ʁ + 5 pHI~ S\Q e ! Naught have I else to do, I sing the whole day long ; And he whom most I love to please Doth listen... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1881 - 462 páginas
...singing to herself one of the songs her friend taught her because it fitted her so well. " A liUle bird I am, Shut from the fields of air; And in my...a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee ! " Naught have I else to do; He caught and bound my wandering wing, But still He bends to hear me... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1881 - 792 páginas
...and bars only shut her iu \vith her Beloved, and what is that but liberty ? She sang :— "A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air ; And in my cage I sit and sin;; To him who placed me there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my Gud, it plcaseth thee.... | |
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A LITTLE bird I am, Shut from the fields of air ; And in my cage I sit, and sing To Him who placed me there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases thee. 
