 Her gentle tone comes stealing by — And years, and sin, and manhood flee, And leave me at my mother's knee. The book of nature, and the print Of beauty on the whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament Of what I have been taught to be. My heart is...  Lily Bell: Or, The Lost Child - Page 150by Alice Fay - 1857 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...my mother's knee. The book of nature, and the print Of beauty on the whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament Of what I have been taught to be. My...tears, And there's a mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years— But nature's book is even yet With all my mother's lessons writ. I have been out... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...my mother's knee. The book of nature, and the print Of beauty on the whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament Of what I have been taught to be. My...and perhaps My manliness hath drunk up tears, And there 'sa mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years — But nature's book is even yet With all my... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...mother's knee. The book of nature and the print Of beauty on the whispering sea, Give aye to mesome lineament Of what I have been taught to be. My heart is harder, and perhaps My manliness huth drunk up tears, And there's a mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years; But nature's book... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...my mother's knee. The book of nature, and the print Of beauty on the whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament Of what I have been taught to be. My...and perhaps My manliness hath drunk up tears, And there 'sa mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years — But nature's book is even yet With all my... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament My heart is harder, and perhaps My manliness hath drank up tears, And there's a mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years ; But nature's book is even yet With all my mother's lessons writ. I have been out... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - Mothers - 1833 - 312 pages
...have been taught to be. i Matt. xxvii. 46. My heart is harder, and perhaps My manliness hath drank up tears ; And there's a mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years ; But nature's book is even yet With all my mother's lessons writ. I have been out... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...my mother's knee. The book of nature, and the print Of beauty on the whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament Of what I have been taught to be. My...tears, And there's a mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years — But nature's book is even yet With all my mother's lessons writ. I have been out... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 406 pages
...book of nature, and the print Of beauty on the whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament Of what 1 have been taught to be. My heart is harder, and perhaps...tears, And there's a mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years— But nature's book is even yet With all my mother's lessons writ. | / I have been... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...my mother's knee. The book of nature, and the print Of beauty on the whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament Of what I have been taught to be. My heart is harder, and perhaps And there's a mildew in the laps* Of a few miserable years— But nature's book is even yet With all... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...whispering sea, Give aye to me some lineament Of what I have been taught to be. BETTER MOMENTS. l5 My heart is harder, and perhaps My manliness hath...tears, And there's a mildew in the lapse Of a few miserable years ; But nature's book is even yet With all my mother's lessons writ. I have been out... | |
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