 Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are...  The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby - Page 316by Charles Kingsley - 1886 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...And the wisdom of our books, When compared with their caresses, And the gladness of their looks. They are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said, For they are living poems, And all the rest are dead." Children are born into the natural world in order... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1868 - 100 pages
...play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. For what are all our contri Tinge , And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. WGS l'íS N PUBLIC : ) } .J;.-lt ». «V» IN» l j ч- .\ •. • ....N-... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of...ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Now is not this a very beautiful song ? Many children little know how deeply... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...children ; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of...ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. LONGFELLOW. MORAL BEAUTY. 'Tls not alone in the flush of morn, In the cowslip-bell,... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrirings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks f Ye are better than all the ballads That were ever sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...children I And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. " For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of...ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." " Children may teach us one blessed, one enviable art — the art of being... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what arc all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books,...ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. MY LOST YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of...with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks P Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all... | |
 | Music - 1859 - 440 pages
...whisper in my car WhaUhe birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what arc all onr contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared...with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Yc are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...whisper in my ear What the hirds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. 107 For what arc all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with jour caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung... | |
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