 And didst thou visit him no more ? Thou didst, thou didst, my daughter deare ; The waters laid thee at his doore, Ere yet the early dawn was clear. Thy pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place....  A Book of Women's Verse - Page 157edited by - 1921 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 1006 pages
...pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That flow strewed wrecks about the grass, That ebbe swept out the flocks to sea ; A fatal ebhe and flow, alas ! To manyc more than myne and me : But each will mourn his own (she saith), And... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - 1863 - 554 pages
...pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That flow strewed wrecks about the grass, That ebbe...; A fatal ebbe and flow, alas ! To manye more than myue and mee : But each will mourn his own (she saith) ; And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath Than my... | |
 | 1864 - 594 pages
...overtook her. Every reader will appreciate the mournful yet reconciling music of the extract : — " That flow strewed wrecks about the grass, That ebbe...breath Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth. I shall never bear her more By tho reedy Lindis shore, ' Cusha, Cusha, Cusha ! ' calling, Ere the early dews be falling... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - 1864 - 36 pages
...pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That flow strewed wrecks about the grass, That ebbe...own (she saith). And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath /* /.?•," , £•-„< •,? JEAN INGELOAV'S POEMS, NINTH EDITION. IN ONE VOLUME, IGMO. Vellum and... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 562 pages
...pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That flow strewed wrecks about the grass, That ebbe...ebbe and flow, alas ! To manye more than myne and me : And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth. I shall never hear her more... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...hardly time to flee before it brake against the knee, And all the world was in the sea. -:•:- * * That flow strewed wrecks about the grass, that ebbe...ne'er drew breath Than my sonne's wife Elizabeth. * * * The following lyric illustrates the pictorial beauty of her style, no less felicitously : —... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - 1866 - 274 pages
...pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That flow strewed wrecks about the grass, That ebbe...own (she saith). And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath 152 I shall never hear her more By the reedy Lindis shore, " Cusha, Cusha, Cusha ! " calling, Ere the... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That flow strewed wrecks about the gruss, That ebbe swept out the flocks to sea; A fatal ebbe...saith). And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath Than my sonnc's wife, Elizabeth. I shall never hear her more By the reedy Lindis shore, "Cusha, Cusha, Cusha... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - 1867 - 272 pages
...pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That flow strewed wrecks about the grass. That ebbe...ebbe and flow, alas ! To manye more than myne and mee : But each will mourn his own (she saith). And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath Than my sonne's... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - 1867 - 358 pages
...pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That flow strewed wrecks about the grass, That ebbe...the flocks to sea ; A fatal ebbe and flow, alas ! To nianye more than myne and mee : But each will mourn his own (she saith) ; And sweeter woman ne'er drew... | |
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