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... SLEEP BY ELIZABETH ANN AKERS Backward , turn backward , O Time , in your flight , Make me a child again just for to - night ! Mother , come back from the echoless shore , Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forehead ...
... SLEEP BY ELIZABETH ANN AKERS Backward , turn backward , O Time , in your flight , Make me a child again just for to - night ! Mother , come back from the echoless shore , Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forehead ...
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... sleep , mother , — rock me to sleep ! Backward , flow backward , O tide of the years ! I am so weary of toil and of tears , — Toil without recompense , tears all in vain , — Take them , and give me my childhood again ! I have grown ...
... sleep , mother , — rock me to sleep ! Backward , flow backward , O tide of the years ! I am so weary of toil and of tears , — Toil without recompense , tears all in vain , — Take them , and give me my childhood again ! I have grown ...
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... sleep , mother , rock me to sleep ! SHE AND HE BY EDWIN ARNOLD " Come away ; " She is dead ! " they said to him . Kiss her ! and leave her ! — thy love is clay ! " They smoothed her tresses of dark brown hair ; On her forehead of marble ...
... sleep , mother , rock me to sleep ! SHE AND HE BY EDWIN ARNOLD " Come away ; " She is dead ! " they said to him . Kiss her ! and leave her ! — thy love is clay ! " They smoothed her tresses of dark brown hair ; On her forehead of marble ...
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... sleep ? " Did life roll backward its record , Dear , And show , as they say it does , past things clear ? " And was it the innermost heart of the bliss To find out so what a wisdom love is ? " Oh , perfect Dead ! oh , Dead most dear , I ...
... sleep ? " Did life roll backward its record , Dear , And show , as they say it does , past things clear ? " And was it the innermost heart of the bliss To find out so what a wisdom love is ? " Oh , perfect Dead ! oh , Dead most dear , I ...
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... sleep- A pillow for thy care and tear ; It is not , then , amiss . And what is Life ? And what is Love ? And what is Death ? - so pure and free ; Seek , child , no more , nor worry with thy queries , For Life is Love ; and Love is Death ...
... sleep- A pillow for thy care and tear ; It is not , then , amiss . And what is Life ? And what is Love ? And what is Death ? - so pure and free ; Seek , child , no more , nor worry with thy queries , For Life is Love ; and Love is Death ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON ALICE CARY angels apple-tree auld lang syne beautiful bells Bingen bird blessed blue Blynken Born brave breast breath bright brother brow child dark dead dear death doth dream dying earth eyes face fair fame father flowers forever glad glory gone grave gray hand hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW JOHN JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER kiss Lady land laugh light lips live look Lord morn mother ne'er never Nevermore night o'er old Kentucky home old oaken bucket poems poet Queen rest Rock rose round shine silence sing sleep smile soldier song sorrow soul star-spangled banner stars sweet tears tell thee There's thine THOMAS MOORE thought to-night tree verse VISIT FROM ST voice wave weary weep wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind word wrote young