 Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...  The Children's Friend - Pàgina 2671903Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pàgines
...the leaves are to the forest, With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. For what are all our coutrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with their caresses, And... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pàgines
...us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...wood. — That to the world are children ; Through thern it feels their glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pàgines
...to us If the children were no more? We shonld dread the desert behind ua Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, 0 ye children 1 And whimper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pàgines
...What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 pàgines
...us If the children were no more ? \Ve should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. 106 Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the hirds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 pàgines
...us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pàgines
...us If the children were no more P We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Thau reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and... | |
 | 1859 - 440 pàgines
...more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves arc to tho forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O yc children ! And whisper in my car WhaUhe birds and the winds are singing In your sunny... | |
 | Helen Lester (fict.name.) - 1859 - 288 pàgines
...SHOBIRL, PRINTER, 37. DEAN STRUT, Soiio, \\. HELEN LESTER, CHAPTER I. " What the leaves are to the fruit, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender...the glow Of a brighter and .'sunnier climate Than reaches'the trunks below." LONGFELLOW. In a long, low, old-fashioned house, called the Grange, about... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pàgines
...to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood — 92 " That to the world are children ; Through these it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier... | |
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