 Tis nearly ten ! A fearful night, Without a single star To light the shadow on her soul With sparkle from afar: The moon is canopied with clouds, And her burden it is sore ; — What would wee Jackie do, if he Should never see her more...  Poems - Page 212by David Gray - 1865 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Gray - 1864 - 282 pages
...Suddenly woke beneath his hand To potent bliss in fairy show — A mighty ravishment of snow ! JOHN FROST, old Nature's jeweller, had beautified the leas,...will be a beacon on the hill To let your mother see. 4 And trim it well, my little Ann, For the night is wet and cold, And you know the weary, winding way... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1865 - 562 pages
...palsied palm Upon my aching brow ; The headlong blood of twenty-one Is thin and sluggish now. 'Tis nearly ten ! A fearful night, Without a single star...the lamp, and hang it up At the window fair and free ; "Twill be a beacon on the hill To let your mother see. And trim it well, my little Ann, For the night... | |
 | David Gray - English poetry - 1874 - 238 pages
...his palsied palm Upon my aching brow; The headlong blood of twenty-one Is thin and sluggish now. 'Tis nearly ten ! A fearful night, Without a single star...would wee Jackie do, if he Should never see her more? Aye, light the lamp, and hang it up At the window fair and free; 'Twill be a beacon on the hill To... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 388 pages
...glass. THE DEAR OLD TOILING ONE Oн, many a leaf will fall to-night, As she wanders through the wood I And many an angry gust will break The dreary solitude....see her more ? Ay, light the lamp, and hang it up 'T will be a beacon on the hill To let your mother see. And trim it well, my little Ann, For the night... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 810 pages
...on her soul With sparkle from afar : And her burden it is sore ; The moon is canopied with clouds, What would wee Jackie do, if he Should never see her more ? At the window fair and free; Ay. light the lamp, and hang it up Omar Khayyam 1 T will be a beacon... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Mother's Day - 1915 - 390 pages
...his palsied palm Upon my aching brow ; The headlong blood of twenty-one Is thin and sluggish now. Tis nearly ten! A fearful night, Without a single star...with clouds, And her burden it is sore; What would poor Jackie do, if he Should never see her more? Aye, light the lamp, and hang it up At the window... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Mothers - 1916 - 400 pages
...palsied palm Upon my aching brow ; The headlong blood of twenty-one Is thin and sluggish now. 'Tis nearly ten! A fearful night, Without a single star...with clouds, And her burden it is sore; What would poor Jackie do, if he Should never see her more? Aye, light the lamp, and hang it up At the window... | |
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