| 1850 - 398 pages
...the soft rain over head. Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart, And a thousand lively fancies Into busy being start ; And a thousand recollections...listen to the patter Of the soft rain on the roof. There in fancy comes my mother, As she used to, years agone, To survey the infant sleepers, Ere she... | |
| Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 350 pages
...And to listen to the patter Of the soft rain over-head. 'Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart, And a thousand dreary fancies Into busy...listen to the patter Of the soft rain on the roof. ' There in fancy comes my mother, As she used to years agone, To survey the infant sleepers Ere she... | |
| Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 388 pages
...And to listen to the patter Of the soft rain over-head. * Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart, And a thousand dreary fancies Into busy...thousand recollections Weave their bright hues into woof, AB I listen to the patter Of the soft rain on the roof. ' There in fancy comes my mother, As she used... | |
| Miss E. Hedge - English poetry - 1856 - 164 pages
...And to listen to the patter Of the soft rain overhead. Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart ; And a thousand dreary fancies Into busy...listen to the patter Of the soft rain on the roof. There, in fancy, comes my mother, As she used to years agone, To survey the infant sleepers, Ere she... | |
| A. De Puy Van Buren - Southern States - 1859 - 336 pages
...rain over head. Every tinkle on the shingles Finds an echo in the heart, • And a thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start. And a thousand recollections...Weave their bright hues into woof, As I listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof. Then in fancy comes my mother As she did in days a-gone, To survey... | |
| Francis Channing Woodworth - Fables - 1859 - 322 pages
...the soft rain over-head. Every tingle on the shingle lias an echo in the heart, And a thousand lively fancies Into busy being start ; And a thousand recollections Weave their bright hues into As I listen to the patter Of the soft rain on the roof. There in fancy comes my mother, As she used... | |
| William Turner Coggeshall - American literature - 1860 - 704 pages
...patter of the rain. — ^Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart ; And a thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start, And a thousand recollections...bright hues into woof, As I listen to the patter Of the rain upon the roof. THE HEROES OF THE PEN.* IN the old time gone, ere came the dawn To the ages dark... | |
| William Turner Coggeshall - American literature - 1860 - 708 pages
...Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart ; THE HEROES OF THE PEN.* And a thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start, And a thousand recollections Weave their bright hues into woof, IN the old time gone, ere came the dawn To the ages dark and dim, Who wielded the sword with mightiest... | |
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