 | American Tract Society - American literature - 1868 - 172 pages
...a traveller passed by ; She lay beneath a snowy veil ; The frost of death was in her eye, Her cheek was cold and hard and pale : He moved the robe from...the child ; The babe looked up, and sweetly smiled. •' li NE evening in Ceylon, Mrs. Winslow laid little Charles on the floor to sleep a few moments.... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...traveller passed by, And saw her — 'neath a snowy vail ; The frost of death — was in her eye, Her cheek was cold, and hard, and pale; He moved the robe from off the child, The babe look'd up — and sweetly smiled! TO ROSARELLE. (PHILIP LAWRKNCE.) Ah ! can I now in words impart,... | |
 | Adolf Douai - Readers - 1874 - 168 pages
...a traveler' passed by, And saw her neath a snowy veil: The frost of death was in her eye: Her cheek was cold and hard and pale. He moved the robe from...the child: The babe looked up and sweetly smiled. LESSON XXIII. ABOUT MONKEYS. 1. I suppose, all my little readers have seen a monkey. Sometimes men... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...Saw her beneath the fleecy veil ; The frost of death was in her eye, Her cheek was cold, and bai'd, and pale ; He moved the robe from off the child — The babe looked up and sweetly smiled. Thus answered was the mother's prayer, Thus saved, the object of her care. 1 The circumstances alluded... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...traveler passed by, And saw her 'neath a snowy veil ; The frost of death was in her eye, Her cheek was cold, and hard, and pale. He moved the robe from...the child, — The babe looked up and sweetly smiled ! A SNOW-STORM. SCENE IN A VERMONT WINTER. 'T is a fearful night in the winter time, As cold as it... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 200 pages
...traveller, passing by, Saw her beneath the fleecy veil ; The frost of death was in her eye, Her cheek was cold, and hard, and pale; He moved the robe from...the child — The babe looked up and sweetly smiled. Thus answered was the mother's prayer ; Thus saved the object of her care. Drift, to shift position... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...kiss, one tear she shed, And sunk upon her snowy bed. At dawn a traveller passed by, And saw her 'neath x 2 ! ЗЕВА SMITH. SEVEN TIMES FOUR. MATERNITY. HF.IOH-HO ! daisies and buttercups, Fair yellow daffodils,... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1881 - 234 pages
...traveller passed by, And saw her 'neath a snowy 'veil ; The 'frost of death was in her eye, Her cheek was cold, and hard, and pale : He moved the 'robe...the child — The babe looked up and sweetly smiled ! SEBA SMITH. path-less, without a road. per-ish, die. robe, mantle. veil, covering. THE WILLOW TREE.... | |
 | Granville series - 1882 - 184 pages
...traveller, passing by, Saw her beneath the fleecy veil ; The frost of death was iu her eye, Her cheek was cold, and hard, and pale ; He moved the robe from...the child — The babe looked up and sweetly smiled. Thus answered was the mother's prayer ; Thus saved the object of her care. THE WHITE BEAR. pleas-ur-a-ble,... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...a traveler passed by : She lay beneath a snowy veil ; The frost of death was in her eye ; Her cheek was cold, and hard, and pale — He moved the robe...the child ; The babe looked up, and sweetly smiled. JOHN MAYNARD. WAS on Lake Erie's broad expanse, One bright midsummer day, The gallant steamer Ocean... | |
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neath a snowy veil ; The frost of death was in her eye, Her cheek was cold and hard and pale. He moved the robe from off the child, — The babe looked up and sweetly smiled ! SEBA SMITH. 
