 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
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 476 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...keep — Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, 0 swift tide of years 1 I am weary of toil, I am weary of tears ; Toil without... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - Elocution - 1881 - 454 pages
...more Haply will 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 I last listened your lullaby song: Sing, then, and unto my soul it shall seem Womanhood's years have been... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...will throng the swee'. visions of yore ;• Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep; — Rock me lo sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep! Mother, dear mother, the years have been long Since I last listened your lullaby song : Sing, then, and unto my soul it shall seem Womanhood's years have been... | |
 | Recitations - 1883 - 236 pages
...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 your...— Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep! Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of the years ! I am so weary of toil and of tears, — Toil without... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...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 your...— Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, oh, tide of the years I I am so weary of toil and of tears, — Toil without... | |
 | Helen C. Garland - 1883 - 140 pages
...heart as of yore. Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out from my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; — Rock me to sleep, mother ! Rock me to sleep ! 2 Backwark, turn backward, oh ! tide of years, I have grown weary of toil and of tears ; Toil, without... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1883 - 542 pages
...Take me again to your heart a» 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 — Hock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep! l, flow backward, О tide of the years! I am so... | |
 | Education - 1891 - 400 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...keep ; Rock me to sleep, Mother, rock me to sleep ! FLORENCE PERCR. Let us gather up the sunbeams, Lying all around our path ; Let us keep the wheat... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - 1884
...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 your loving watch keep— Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep! Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years I ) I am so weary of toil and... | |
 | Martha Louise Rayne - American literature - 1885 - 578 pages
...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 your...keep — Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years, I am BO weary of toil and of tears — Toil without recompense,... | |
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