 Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the...  Woman Free - Page 63by Ellis Ethelmer - 1893 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Library Association - 1911 - 416 pages
...Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse: The Cry of the Children Do ye hear the children weeping, О my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They...against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns... | |
 | 1892 - 586 pages
...to one who knows the state of affairs which brought it forth. " Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They...against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows ; The young birds are chirping in the nest ; The young... | |
 | 1924 - 1014 pages
...described by Mrs. Browning's famous poem, "Cry of the Children": "Do you hear the children weeping, О my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They...against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - 1943 - 232 pages
...of the classes for whose benefit those riches are accumulated : "Do ye hear the children weeping, O, my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They...their young heads against their mothers, And that can not stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows; The young birds are chirping... | |
 | United States - 1943 - 300 pages
...the classes for whose benefit those riches are accumulated : "Do ye hear the children w,eeping, D, my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They...their young heads against their mothers, And that can not stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows; The young birds are chirping... | |
 | 1903 - 1172 pages
...his governor blocked up during his absence is willing to risk much for nothing. CHILD LABOB. Do yon hear the children weeping, Oh, my brothers, Ere the...comes with years? They are leaning their young heads ngainst their mothers'. But that can not stop their tears. The yonng lambs are bleating In the meadows,... | |
 | London city of Lond. sch - 1883 - 542 pages
...haggard faces towards you and exclaim, " At least save us ! " " Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They...against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1979 - 370 pages
...workers to cry to mothers powerless to alleviate their suffering : Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They...against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. But the young, young children, O my brothers, Do you ask them why they stand Weeping sore before the... | |
 | Catherine Robson - 2001 - 270 pages
..."mailed heel" from the "child's heart," women are powerless to protect or even comfort their offspring: "They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, / And that cannot stop their tears" (1l. 3-4). Because the family is in disarray, the home finds no representation in this poem: the sole... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...with the plight of the young in factory employment. It begins: Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They...against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns... | |
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