 Work — work — work ! In the dull December light, And work — work — work! When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the Spring.  Poems - Page 47by Thomas Hood - 1857 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...In the dull December light, And work — work — work When the weather is warm and bright : While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. "0, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head, And the... | |
 | Charles Henri Schneider - 1875 - 328 pages
...December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright ; While uuderneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. " 0 ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...In the dull December light, And work — work — work When the weather is warm and bright : While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny hacks, And twit me with the spring. "0, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...twit me with the spring. "O 1 but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet —- \Vith the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For ouly one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs... | |
 | 1915 - 368 pages
...work In the dull December light! And work — work — work When the weather is warm and bright! While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. "O, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, — With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - Justice - 1915 - 984 pages
...work In the dull December light! And work — work — work When the weather is warm and bright! While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs And twit me with the Spring. "O! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - English literature - 1915 - 272 pages
...In the dull December light! And work — work — work — When the weather is warm and bright; When underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling. As if to show me their sunny backs. And licit me with the spring! " The last line is a daring experiment in contrast. On the face of it, a... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...cling As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. "Oh! but to breathe the breath 65 beat Of the thundering drum 30 Cries: "Hark! the foes...retreat!" The soft complaining flute In dying notes dis 7° Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal. "Oh! but for one short hour! A respite... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves 61 ere steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendor...And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature' 65 Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While e soul and the clod. 1 20 And thus looking within and around me, I ever renew (With 64 "Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head,... | |
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