 If we cared for any 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 heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For...  Blackwood's Magazine - Página 2611843Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Andrews - 1888 - 318 páginas
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our hearts... | |
 | 1888 - 344 páginas
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For all day we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground, Or all day...the wheels of iron In the factories round and round. " For all day the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our hearts... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1888 - 204 páginas
...flower would look as pale as snow, For, all day, we drag our burdens tiring Through the coal - dark, underground ; Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning : Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
 | Harry Prentice - 1888 - 296 páginas
...BURTON, THE SLATE-PICKER. CHAPTER I. A BOY'S DISAPPOINTMENT. ' For all day we drag our burden tiring, In the coal-dark underground — Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the breaker lound and round ; * * # # * Our blood splashes upward, oh, gold heaper, And your purple strews... | |
 | Homer Greene - 1889 - 298 páginas
...reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For all day we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal dark underground, Or all day we drive the wheels of iron In the factories round and round.' " ' How long,' they say, ' how long, 0 cruel nation ! Will you stand to move the world on a child's... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1889 - 336 páginas
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark, underground; Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron "For all day, the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 páginas
...eyelids drooping, > 5 The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground— Or, all...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. ™ " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning— Their wind comes in our faces— Till our hearts... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1892 - 144 páginas
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground ; Or, all...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. "For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
 | Franklin Monroe Sprague - 1892 - 528 páginas
...eyelids drooping, The reddest flowers would look as pale as snow. For all day long we bear our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground ; Or all...wheels of iron In the factories round and round." Although we are so accustomed to see these overworked classes that we have come to regard their lot... | |
 | Henry Stanislaus Spalding - 1925 - 504 páginas
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow; For all day we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, under-ground; Or all...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round." And well may the children weep before you! They are weary ere they run; They have never seen the sunshine,... | |
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