| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 460 pages
...knew it, for she told me so, In phrase which was divinely moulded ; She wrote a charming hand, and 0, How sweetly all her notes were folded ! Our love was...sob and sigh, Our meeting was all mirth and laughter f For in my heart's most secret cell There had been many other lodgers, And she was not the ball-room... | |
| Elizabeth Williams Champney - Boarding schools - 1891 - 418 pages
...an old volume of Praed and read something which is so cute that I copied it afterward. Here it is : We parted ; months and years rolled by; We met again...heart's most secret cell There had been many other lookers : And she was not the ball-room's belle But only—Mrs. Something Rogers. " I wonder whether... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows,—and then we parted. We met again four summers after : Our parting was all sob and sigh ; We parted ; months and years roll'd by ; Our meeting was all mirth and laughter : For in my heart's... | |
| Children's poetry - 1894 - 288 pages
...heart thought of for a minute : I knew it, for she told me so, In phrase which was divinely moulded ; She wrote a charming hand, and, oh, How sweetly all...had been many other lodgers ; And she was not the ball-room belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 'TWAS EVER THUS.... | |
| Henry Coppée - Literature - 1895 - 552 pages
...Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows ; and then we parted. Our parting was all sob and sigh, Our meeting was...There had been many other lodgers, And she was not the ballroom belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers ! WINTHROP MACKWOP.TH PRAED. REST. TTTANDERING-... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 496 pages
...Catalina jealous; She touched the organ — I could stand For hours and hours and blow the bellows. And she was flattered, worshiped, bored; Her steps...There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room belle. But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers. WH PRESCOTT. .bella' iistinconfi .i made Mty... | |
| Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 582 pages
...was divinely molded ; She wrote a charming hand, and oh! How sweetly all her notes were folded ! t Our love was like most other loves — A little glow,...had been many other lodgers ; And she was not the ballroom belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers. MR. PICKWICK'S ADVENTURE WITH THE MIDDLEAGED... | |
| Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 588 pages
...which was divinely moulded. She wrote a charming hand, and oh How sweetly all her notes were folded I Our love was like most other loves — A little glow,...There had been many other lodgers, And she was not the ballroom belle, But only Mrs.— Something — Rogers ! WINTHROP MACKWORTH PKA.ED. REST. WANDERING... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 422 pages
...miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows — and then we parted. We parted — months and years roll'd by ; We met again four summers after ; Our parting...had been many other lodgers ; And she was not the ball-room belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers. I HKARD a sick man's dying sigh, And au infant's... | |
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