 Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers...  James Gordon's Wife - Page 96by Ellen Clutton-Brock - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...shore, Take me again to your heart as ot yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care. Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; Kock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep I Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years ! I... | |
 | 1876 - 832 pages
...Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair, Over my slumbers your...watch keep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! " And when extreme old ago has enfeebled the mental powers, and, like a wet sponge passed over a... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pages
...more, . Happily will throng the sweet visions of yore ; , Loviagly, softly its bright billows sweep: Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep ! Mother,...been long Since I last hushed to your lullaby song ; Since then, and unto my soul it shall seem Womanhood's years have been but a dream : Clasped to your... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 404 pages
...Take me again to your heart as of yore;• Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep — Rock me to sleep, Mother—rock me to sleep! Backward, flow backward, O swift ti;le of years ! I am weary of toil, I... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair, Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; Koek me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of years ! I am so weary... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 712 pages
...Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care. Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep — Bock me to sleep, Mother — rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, O swift tide of years... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - Soldiers' writings, American - 1862 - 252 pages
...for to-night ! Mother, come back from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, — Rock me to sleep, mother— rock me to sleep. " Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of the years ! I am so weary of toils and of tears, Toil without... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1864 - 244 pages
...once more Happily throng the sweet visions of yore ; Lovingly, softly its bright billows sweep, — Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep. " Mother, dear mother, the years have been long, Since last I was hushed by your lullaby song ; Sing then, and unto my soul it shall seeni That the years... | |
 | 1723 - 216 pages
...Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair, Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Bock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Backward, turn backward, 0 tide of my years ! I am so weary... | |
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