 Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!  The Works of Thomas Hood - Page 149by Thomas Hood - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour t A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But... | |
 | Historical account - 1857 - 106 pages
...band ; Band, gusset, and seam ; Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream ! Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, Or the walk that costs a meal ! Oh ! men with sisters dear, Oh ! men with mothers and wives, It is... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. 9. " Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the ^cowslip and ^primrose...beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I us'd to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal! 10. Oh 1 but for one... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1857 - 564 pages
...breathe the breath Of the heather aud gorse so sweet, With my wide-awake on my head, And my luncheon at my feet ! For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, After a morning's blaze at the birds, For an. appetite for my meal ! With patience threadbare worn,... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...head, And the grass beneath my feet ! For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal... | |
 | 1859 - 316 pages
...Of the blankets around me again, With the curtains about my head, And nothing to think of the rain. For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the awful pangs Of the run before the meal. Oh ! but for one short hour, A respite however scant, No blessed... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1864 - 206 pages
...lines, nor understand the wretched condition of the being whose misery is therein described ? "Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal. Oh ! liu t for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But... | |
 | Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
...The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! — No blessed leisure for Love or Hope,... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh, but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But... | |
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