 Women know The way to rear up children (to be just) ; They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things are corals to cut...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 281857Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Epic poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things...holy earnest in a pretty play, And get not over-early solemnised, — But seeing, as in a rose-bush, Love's Divine, Which burns and hurts not, — not a... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby -shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things...holy earnest in a pretty play, And get not over-early solemnised, — But seeing, as in a rose-bush, Love's Divine, Which burns and hurts not, — not a... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1857 - 404 pages
...merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, AM stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things...such, Love's holy earnest in a pretty play, And get not.over-early solemnised, — But seeing, as in a rose-bush, Love's Divine, Which burns and hurts... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 422 pages
...merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things...holy earnest in a pretty play, And get not over-early solemnised, — But seeing, as in a rose-bush, Love's Divine, Which burns and hurts not, — not a... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...merry, tender knacV Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes. And stringing pretty words that make no sense, ; and to address ;"че skittish fancy with facetious...HESflSTEBS— Divine Mission of. Men of God have a CHILD HEN. CHILDREN. And get not отег-early solemnized ; В Jt seeing as in a rosebush Love's design,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 418 pages
...merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things...holy earnest in a pretty play, And get not over-early solemnised, — But seeing, as in a rose-bush, Love's Divine, Which burns and hurts not, — not a... | |
 | Richard Henry Smith - 1866 - 170 pages
...merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things...holy earnest in a pretty play, And get not over-early solemnised ; But seeing as in a rosebush love's design, Which burns and hurts not — not a single... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things...are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles. Mrs. Browning. CHOICE. When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best... | |
 | 1868 - 848 pages
...sashes, fitting buby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sen«e into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life...a pretty play, And get not over-early solemnized. t . . fathers love as well, . but still with heavier brains, And wills more consciously responsible,... | |
 | Robert Collyer - 1867 - 344 pages
...tender knack Of tying sashes, lilting baby-shoes, * And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things...upon, Although such trifles. Children learn, by such, Zoye's holy earnest in a pretty play, Anil get not over-early solemnized. ...... Fathers love as well,... | |
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