 And her bright-eyed cherub brother, — a serene, angelic pair, — Glide around my wakeful pillow with their praise or mild reproof, As I listen to the murmur of the soft rain on the roof. And another comes to thrill me with her eyes  Heart Songs: A Book for the Gift-season - Page 102edited by - 1856 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 584 pages
...' Then my little seraph sister, With her wings and waving hair. And her bright-eyed cherub brother, A serene, angelic pair, Glide around my wakeful pillow,...listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof.' •PUFFER HOPKINS,' alias Mr. CORNELIUS MATHEWS, the self-styled 'American DICKENS,' writes as follows... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - 1852 - 388 pages
...'Then my little seraph sister, With her wings and waving hair, And her bright-eyed cherub brother, A serene, angelic pair, Glide around my wakefUl pillow,...listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof.' WE stood by a western window of the pretty Episcopal church at Binghamton, on a recent Sunday morning,... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 pages
...dreamy fancies Into busy being start. And a thousand recollections Weave their bright hues into woof, As I listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof. Then in fancy comes my mother As she did in days a-gone, To survey her infant sleepers, Ere she left... | |
 | Francis Channing Woodworth - 1859 - 322 pages
...my little seraph sister, With her wings and waving hair, And her bright-eyed cherub brother— • A serene, angelic pair — Glide around my wakeful pillow, With their praise of mild reproof As I listen to the mnrmnr Of the soft rain on the roof. 100 NELLY'S GRAVE. There is... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1860 - 704 pages
...little seraph sister, With her wings and waving hair, And her bright-eyed cherub brother — AT * T serene, angelic pair ! — Glide around my wakeful...listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof. came To ravage and to slay, But the savage soul with thought to tame, And with love and reason sway... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1860 - 708 pages
...— A serene, angelic pair ! — To ravage and to slay, But the savage soul with thought to 1лгос Glide around my wakeful pillow, With their praise or mild reproof, As I listen to the murmur And with love and reason sway ; Nor good steel wrought that battles fought, Of the soft rain on the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...Then my little seraph sister1, With her wings and waving hair', And her bright-eyed cherub brother', A serene, angelic pair', Glide around my wakeful pillow, With their praise or mild reproof1, As I listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof. 5. There is naught in art's bravuras1... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...sister1, With her wings and waving hair', And her bright-eyed cherub brother', A serene, angelic pair7, Glide around my wakeful pillow, With their praise...listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof. B. There is naught in art's bravuras1 That can work with such a spell, In the spirit's pure, deep fountains,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 pages
...Then my little seraph sister', With her wings and waving hair', And her bright-eyed cherub brother', A serene, angelic pair', Glide around my wakeful pillow,...listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof. 5. There is naught in art's bravuras1 That can work with such a spell, In the spirit's pure, deep fountains,... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...Then my little seraph sister, with her wings and waving hair, And her bright-eyed, cherub brother — a serene, angelic pair — Glide around my wakeful...listen to the murmur of the soft rain on the roof. 5. And another comes to thrill me with her eyes' delicious blue. I forget, as gazing on her, that her... | |
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