 Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue, Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you! Many a summer the grass has grown green Blossomed and faded, our faces between; Yet, with strong yearning and passionate pain. Long I tonight for your presence again....  James Gordon's Wife - Page 96by Ellen Clutton-Brock - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...heart calls for you! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and faded, our faces between : Yet, with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again. Come from the silence so long and so deep; — Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep ! Over... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pages
...calls for you ! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed, and faded — our faces between ; Yet, with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again : Come from the silence so long and so deep — Bock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep ! Over... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...heart calls for you ! Many a summer the grass luis grown green, Blossomed and faded, our faces between, Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again ; Conic from the silence so long and so deep ; Rock m'c to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! Over my... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 404 pages
...heart calls for you ! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and faded, our faces between : Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again : Come from the silence so long and so deep, ' Rock me to sleep, Mother—rock me to sleep ! Over my... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 712 pages
...heart calls for you ! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and faded, our faces between : Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again : Come from the silence so long and so deep, Rock me to sleep, Mother — rock me to sleep ( Over my... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - Soldiers' writings, American - 1862 - 252 pages
...calls for you. Two weary summers the grass has grown green, Blossomed, and faded, our faces between ; Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again ; Come from the silence so long and so deep, — Eock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep. " Over... | |
 | 1723 - 216 pages
...heart calls for you ! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and faded, our faces between ; Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I, to-night, for your presence again ; Come from your silence so long and so deep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Mother, dear... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1869 - 268 pages
...your lullaby song, Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossom'd and faded our faces between ; Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again ; Come from the silence so long and so deep, Rock me, &c. 2tH HER BRIGHT SMILE. EXTKESIIO*. WuovroK.... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1864 - 244 pages
...calls for you. Two weary summers the grass has grown green, Blossomed, and faded, our faces between ; Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again ; Come from the silence so long and so deep, — Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep. " Over... | |
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...every side, and permitted her to escape unhurt. The poetess was indeed right when she wrote, — " Over my heart, in the days that are flown, No love like mother's love ever hath shone." * IX. THE VALUE OF SECONDS. General Mitchell was well known as an eminent... | |
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