The tree is living yet! I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing; My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow! I... The St. James's Magazine - Page 4711867Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...to think their slender tops AiVere close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little Joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE DEATH- BED. watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft and low, As In her breast... | |
| 1863 - 622 pages
...sudden turns as his wit, and it comes with all the more force because not forced. For example : — 1 1 remember, I remember, The fir-trees dark and high...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.' Again: 'I saw thee, lovely Inez, Descend along the shore, With bands of noble pentlemen, And banners... | |
| 1843 - 582 pages
...against it, I might perhaps enter the bright world beyond ! " It was a childish ignorance; But oh, 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy." And how fully, in those ' white days' of life, were believed all the nursery tales which are poured... | |
| 1845 - 614 pages
...living yet ! I remember, I remember. Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fre«t Still burns me up, still tee]* awake A fever naught but death can slake. LOVERS PARTING. SILENCE. THERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...And summer pools could hardly cool • The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE PORTRAIT: BEING AN APOLOGY FOR NOT MAKING AN ATTEMPT ON MY OWN LIFE THE late inimitable Charles... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE PORTRAIT: BEING AIT APOLOGY FOR NOT MAKING AN ATTEMPT ON MT OWN LIFE THE late inimitable Charles... | |
| 1846 - 484 pages
...thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing. My spirits flew in feathers then, That are so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy." Poor Hood ! thou wast like other men, and " all have sinned ;" yet, in spite of thy sad reflection... | |
| 1846 - 166 pages
...; • My spirits flew in feathers then, That are so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly v>°l The fever on my brow. * • I remember, I remember...I'm farther off from Heaven, Than when I was a boy. THE WATCHMAN.— .By T. Moore. GOOD night, good night, my dearest, How fast the moments fly ; 'Tis... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...laburnum on his birth-day, — The tree is living yet 1 4. " I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy." , We shall make room for one more of the shorter poems. HYMN TO THE SUN. " Giver of glowing light !... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE PORTRAIT: BEINO AIT APOLOGY- rOK NOT MAKING AN ATTEMPT OR VT OW1C LIT! THE late inimitable Charles... | |
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