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
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 páginas
...eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would' look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden "For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning ; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
| Edward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman - 1926 - 434 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. vn "For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
| Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 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,... | |
| Arthur Lawrence Hayward - 1926 - 368 páginas
...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. Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper And your purple shows your path ! But the child's sob in the... | |
| Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 páginas
...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. "For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
| Frederic W. Robinson - 1928 - 96 páginas
...close the first parts of knowledge. (d) 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. (e) That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit ; This high man, aiming at a million... | |
| Valerie Polakow - 1994 - 232 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." Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Cry of the Children Child labor is an enduring symbol of the harshness... | |
| John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 páginas
...look as pale as snow; For, all day, we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark, underground - ID 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,... | |
| Fred Guida - 2000 - 290 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...drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round."14 One can also look to Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt": "O, men, with sisters dear! O,... | |
| Ed Wicke - 2003 - 240 páginas
...to mind. "For all day long we drag our burden, tiring, through the coal-dark underground Or all the day we drive the wheels of iron in the factories, round and round. " 'Mrs Browning wrote that,' she said. 'We read it at Miss Bell's: it was only published last year.... | |
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