Poppies paleness — round large eyes Ever great with new surprise, Minutes filled with shadeless gladness, Minutes just as brimmed with sadness, Happy smiles and wailing cries, Crows and laughs and tearful eyes, Lights and shadows swifter born Than on... Baby May, home poems and balladsby William Cox Bennett - 1875Full view - About this book
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...verse. From two or three, all equally beautiful, we take the following : — " BABY MAV. " C'IJKF.KS as soft as July peaches : Lips whose dewy scarlet teaches Poppies paleness ; round large eyea Kver great with new surprise ; Minutes filled with shadclcss glad ness ; Minutes just as brimm'd... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1847 - 584 pages
...by day. The Worker had become a Dreamer. BABY MAY. CHEEKS as soft as July peaches, Lips whose velvet scarlet teaches, Poppies paleness, round large eyes,...shadeless gladness, Minutes just as brimmed with sadness, Hap^>y smiles and wailing cries, Crows and laughs and tearful eyes, Lights and shadows, swifter born... | |
| Fraternal organizations - 1847 - 480 pages
...before this time." BABY MAY. BY W C. BENNETT. Cheeks as soft as July peaches — Lips whose velvet scarlet teaches Poppies paleness — round large eyes...shadeless gladness — Minutes just as brimmed with sadnses— Happy smiles and wailing cries, Crows and laughs and tearful eyes, Lights and shadows swifter... | |
| 432 pages
...poems in the hook, which was puhlished some years ago, hut will hear repetition : — BABY MAT. CHEEES as soft as July peaches ; Lips whose dewy scarlet...large eyes Ever great with new surprise ; Minutes tilled with shadelcss gladness ; Minutes ;ust as hrimmed with sadness ; Happy smiles and wailing cries... | |
| Ireland - 1852 - 892 pages
...fail to be. BABT MAT. Checks aa soft as July peaches — Lips whose velvet scarlet teaches Puppies paleness— round large eyes Ever great with new surprise — Minutes filled with shadeless gladnessMinutes just as brimmed with sadnessHappy smiles and wailing cries, Crows and laughs and tearful... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...to nature can hardly fail to be. "BABY MAY. 14 Cheeks as soft as July peaches — Lips whose velvet scarlet teaches Poppies paleness — round large eyes Ever great with new surprise — Minutes ftll'd with shadeless gladness — Minutes just as briinm'd with sadness — Happy smiles and wailing... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 638 pages
...to nature can hardly fail to be. "BABY MAT. " Cheeks as soft as July peaches — Lips whose velvet scarlet teaches Poppies paleness — round large eyes Ever great with new surprise — Miuntes fill'd with shadeless gladness — Minutes just as brimm'd with sadness — Happy smiles... | |
| New London (Conn.) - 1860 - 344 pages
...poems, beautiful and touching, on his '• Baby May." She has — and so, dear madam, has yours — " Cheeks as soft as July peaches, Lips whose dewy scarlet teaches Poppies paleness ; round large eyes, Kwr great with new surprise; Minutes filled with shadeless gladness, Minutes just as brimmed witli... | |
| American poetry - 1861 - 144 pages
...Creep away, my bairnie — BABY MAT. CHEEKS as soft as July poaehes ; Lips whose dewy searlet teaehes Poppies' paleness ; round large eyes Ever great with...as brimmed with sadness : Happy smiles and wailing eries ; Crows and laughs, and tearful eyes ; Lights and shadows, swifter borne Than on wind-swept autumn... | |
| George Augustus Sala - English essays - 1863 - 288 pages
...Koutledge, and bearing the highly popular name of William C. Bennett. I open the book at random, and read: " Cheeks as soft as July peaches ; Lips whose dewy scarlet...; round large eyes, Ever great with new surprise. * » * « Clutching fingers, straightening jerks, Twining feet whose each toe works. * * » * Slumbers—such... | |
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