 mid the cheerless hours of night, A mother wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow...  Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals - Page 61by Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1840 - 226 pages
...night came on, And deeper grew the drifting snow ; Her limbs were chilled her strength was gone. ' Oh, God !' she cried, in accents wild, ' If I must perish, save my child !' She stripped her mantle from her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm, And round the child she wrapped... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were...must perish, save my child." She stript her mantle ftom her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm ; As round the child she wrapped1 the vest, She smiled... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifting snow : Her limbs were chill'd, her strength was gone ; "O, GOD !" she cried, in accents wild, " If I must perish, save my child !" She stripp'd her mantle from her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm, And round the child she wrapp'd... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
...was sleeping on her breast 2. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were...in accents wild, " If I must perish, save my child !" 3. She stripped her mantle from her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm, And round the child,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...sleeping on her breast. 2. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were...in accents wild, " If I must perish, save my child !" 3. She stripped her mantle from her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm, And round the child,... | |
 | 1847 - 828 pages
...blow, And darker hours of nifjht came on, AIn! deeper grew the drifting snow : Her limbs were chill'd, her strength was gone ; " O God ! " she cried in accents wild, " If I must perish, save my child ! " She stripp'd her mantle from her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm, And round the child she wrapp'd... | |
 | Salem Town - Printing - 1848 - 298 pages
...sleeping on her breast. 4. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came On, And deeper grew the drifts of sno'w ; Her limbs were chilled, her stvength waa gone ; 0 God, she cried, in accents void, If I must perish, save my child ! 5. She stripped... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1851 - 294 pages
...sleeping on her breast. 4. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow ; Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone ; 0 God, she cried, in accents wild, If I must perish, save' my child ! 5 She stripped her mantle from... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers (Elementary) - 1852 - 278 pages
...night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow ; Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone , 0 God, she cried, in accents wild, If I must perish, save my chl 1 ! 5. She stripped her mantle from her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm, And round the... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers (Elementary) - 1853 - 300 pages
...cheerless hours of night, 4. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow ; Her limbs were...cried, in accents wild, If I must perish, save my chi. 1 ! . 5. She stripped her mantle from her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm, And round... | |
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