 | Thomas Wright - Poets, English - 1921 - 440 pages
...SCHOOL DAYS. 3 As the following lines show, his mother's tenderness made a deep impression upon him : Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly la1d ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit or confectionery plum ; The fragrant waters... | |
 | Leonard Southerden Wood - Children - 1921 - 396 pages
...once we call'd the pastoral house our own. Shortliv'd possession ! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effac'd A thousand other themes less deeply trac'd, Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 526 pages
...once we call'd the pastoral house3 our own. Shortlived possession! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many...morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or confectionery plum; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestow'd By thy own hand, till fresh they shone... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...his mother was yet alive are traced with a tender sincerity which never lapses into false sentiment : Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid. All this, and more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, All this... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - Children in literature - 1922 - 424 pages
...intimate glimpses of life in the household: Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightest know me safe and warmly laid; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuits, or confectionary plum; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestowed By thy own hand, till fresh... | |
 | John Drinkwater - English poetry - 1924 - 400 pages
...That once we called the pastoral house our own Short-lived possession! but the record fair That memory keeps, of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many...confectionary plum; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestowed By thy own hand, till fresh they shone and glowed; All this, and more endearing still than... | |
 | Norbert Hardy Wallis - English literature - 1924 - 244 pages
...Norfolk ". It is full of loneliness and a cruel comparison between the happiness of childhood — " Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid . . . All this, and more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love . . ."3 and the misfortunes... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many...me safe and warmly laid; Thy morning bounties ere 1 left my home, — The biscuit, or confectionery plum ; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestowed... | |
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Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less... 
