Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair — And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi... The Works of Thomas Hood... - Page 201by Thomas Hood - 1861Full view - About this book
| Robert Hartley Cromek - Ballads, Scots - 1810 - 260 pages
...far'd* When he's beent far awa Sae true his heart,}: sae smooth his speech His breath like cauler air His very foot has Music in't As he comes up the stair And shall I see his face again And shall I hear him speak I'm down right giddy wi' the thought In troth... | |
| 1818 - 354 pages
...far'd* When he's beenf far aw» Sae true bis heart, f sae smooth his speech His breath like rauler air His very foot has Music in't As he comes up the stair And shall I see his face again And shall I hear him speak I'm down right giddy wi' the thought In troth... | |
| Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...awa. Ah ' there's nae, $c. Sae true's his word, sae smooth's his speech His breath like cauler air, His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair ! And shall I see his face again, And shall I hear him speak ! I'm downright dizzy wi' die thought-,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 446 pages
...far awa. Ah, there's nae, &c. Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like cauler air, His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair ! ' And shall 1 see his face again, And shall 1 hear him speak ! I'm downright dizzy wi the thought,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...far awa. Ah, there's nae, &c. Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like cauler air, His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair ! And shall I see bis face again, And shall I hear him speak ! I'm downright dizzy wi the thought,... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...far awa. Ah, there's nae, &c. Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like cauler air, His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair ! And shall I see his face again, And shall I hear him speak ! I'm downright dizzy wi the thought,... | |
| Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1833 - 322 pages
...to scrape and wipe, and I proceeded to make a fishy pattern of soles and dabs up the stair carpet. The good wife in the Scotch song says — " His very...was any music in mine, it was in the stump, which played a sort of " Dead March in Saul," up to the landing-place, where the sound and sight of my Birnam... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1839 - 450 pages
...to scrape and wipe, and I proceeded to make a fishy pattern of soles and dabs up the stair carpet. The good wife in the Scotch song says — *His very...was any music in mine, it was in the stump, which played a sort of " Dead March in Saul," up to the landing-place, where the sound and sight of my Birnam... | |
| Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air — " and the joyful woman runs on : — " His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair." This innocently insane delusion of the wife's, chiming in as it does with a host of similar precious... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...present«, is almost unequalled — Sae true his words, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ! ed there to be. 0 sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Ti * Kit Walter Intended to have named hit romance Cnmnnr Rail, but was persuaded by Mr Constable, hi«... | |
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