 The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.  The Port Folio - Seite 331813Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1852 - 412 Seiten
...style unconsciously, and not only so, but often call fair fere, and hair here. For instance, " The tare down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose." Or, " Wreath'd in its dark brown curls, her here Half hid Matilda's forehead fere." At the close of... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...their feet, And part far from them. Wordsworth. CHILD. 179 The child is father of the man. Wordsworth. The tear down childhood's cheek that flows Is like...breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry. Scott. And still I looked upon their loveliness, And sought through nature for similitudes Of perfect... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 Seiten
...Ah, the souls of them that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher. LONGFELLOW. THE SOBBOWS OF CHILDHOOD. The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like...breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. SCOTT. THE SPIBIT OF PHILANTHROFY. A sense of an earnest will To help the lowly living, And a terrible... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 Seiten
...merely players. n. Pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the flower — its bloom is shed. m. The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like...dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze conies by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. IV. When winds the mountain oak assail, And lay its... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 Seiten
...failing strength Just bore him hero — and then the child Renew'd again his moaning wild.' • XL The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like...dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze conies by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. Won by Uieir care, the orphan Child Soon on his new... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1853 - 334 Seiten
...fleeting. " The tear down childhood's check which flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose; When the next summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry." * But the impress of your life upon its soul is immortal. Around the solemn, charge of the mother a... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - 1854 - 316 Seiten
...Bcott compares the quickness with which the tears of childhood dry, to that of the dew of flowers : " The tear down childhood's cheek that flows Is like the dewdrop on the rose : When first the summer breeze comes by, And shakes the bush, the flower is dry." The comparison has two characteristics.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 Seiten
...all, his failing strength Just bore him here— and then the child Eenew'd again his moaning wild. XI. The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like...Won by their care, the orphan Child Soon on his new protector smiled, With dimpled cheek and eye so fair, Through his thick curls of flaxen hair, But blithest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 Seiten
...his failing strength Just bore him here — and then the child Renew'd again his moaning wild.* XL The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like...comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. Won bv their care, the orphan Cliild Soon on his new protector smiled, With dimpled cheek and eye so fair,... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 512 Seiten
...within the power of slavery to write indelible sorrow, at a single dash, over the heart of a child. "The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like...comes by, And waves the bush, — the flower is dry." There is, after all, but little difference in the measure of contentment felt by the slave-child neglected... | |
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