 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 344 pages
...; When the chilling tear stands in my comfortless eye, Oh how hard is the lot of the wandering boy. The winter is cold, and I have no vest, And my heart...have I, For I am a parentless wandering boy. III. Yel I had a home, and I once had a sire, A mother, who granted eatyi infant desire ; Our cottage it... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1808 - 698 pages
...spread ; The moon will smile sweet, And the wild wave will beat, Oh ! so softly o'er our lonely bed. THE WANDERING BOY. A SONG. I. WHEN the winter wind...kindred have I, For I am a parentless wandering boy. til. Yet I had a home, and I once had a sire, A mother, who granted each infant desire ; Our cottage... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English literature - 1808 - 380 pages
...along the wild moor, And'the cottager shuts on the beggar his door; When the chilling tear stands iu my comfortless eye, Oh how hard is the lot of the...Yet I had a home, and I once had a sire,. A mother, wh . granted each infant desire; Our cottage it stood in a wood-embower'd vale, Where the ring-dove... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 400 pages
...When the chilling tear stands in my comfortless eye ! Oh, how hard is the lot of the wandering hoy ! The winter is cold, and I have no vest, And my heart it is cold as it heats in my breast ; No father, no mother, no kindred have I, For I am a parentless wandering boy.... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1813 - 404 pages
...comfortless eye, Oh, how hard is the lot of the Wandering Boy ! II. The winter is cold, and I have n6 vest, •• And my heart it is cold as it beats in...kindred have I, For I am a parentless Wandering Boy. ili. Yet I had a home, and I once had a sire, A mother who granted each infant desire ; Our cottage... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 398 pages
...When the chilling tear stands in my comfortless eye, Oh, how hard is the lot of the Wandering Boy ! IB The winter is cold, and I have no vest, And my heart it is cold as it beats io my breast ; No father, no mother, no kindred have I, For I am a parentless' Wandering Boy. III.... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pages
...When the chilling tear stands in my comfortless eye, Oh ! how hard is the lot of the wandering boy. The winter is cold, and I have no vest, And my heart...kindred have I — For I am a parentless, wandering boy. Yet I had a home, and I once had a sire, A mother who granted each infant desire; Our cottage it stood... | |
 | Shipwrecked sailor-boy - 1822 - 126 pages
...fresh customer. Henry Kirk White's " Wandering Boy" was almost literally descriptive of poor James: " No father, no mother, no kindred have I, " For I am a parentless Wandering Boy." . And not less so as it proceeds: " Yet I once had a home, and I once had a sire; " A mother who granted... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English literature - 1827 - 242 pages
...Wish'd that, remote from worldly woes and strife, Unknown, unheard, I might have pass'd through life. THE WANDERING BOY. A SONG. I. When the winter wind...have I, For I am a parentless Wandering Boy. III. IV. But my father and mother were summon'd away, And they left me to hard-hearted strangers a prey;... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English poetry - 1827 - 486 pages
...When the chilling tear stands in my comfortless eye, Ob, how hard is the lot of the Wandering Boy ! The winter is cold, and I have no vest, , And my heart...kindred have I, For I am a parentless Wandering Boy. Yet I had a home, and I once had a sire, A mother who granted each infant desire ; Our cottage it stood... | |
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WHEN the winter wind whistles along the wild moor, And the cottager shuts on the beggar his door ; When the chilling tear stands in my comfortless eye, Oh, how hard is the lot of the Wandering Boy. 
