 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 696 pages
...was woe ; Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there 's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt ; More he... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1885 - 192 pages
...must kiss Child and mother, baby bless, For he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When 'thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. ROBERT GREENE. PHILOMELA'S ODE THAT SHE SUNG IN HER ARBOUR. ITTING by a river side, Where a silent... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1885 - 190 pages
...The sweet Pamela was brought into a sweet sleep with this song."] SEPHESTIA'S SONG TO HER CHILD. EEP not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. Mother's wag, pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. When thy father first did see Such a boy by... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 pages
...this light Greene's ' Sephestia's Song to her Child,' from the ' Menophon '. The song opens thus— Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. There the stroke is made direct upon characteristic points of soothing, by means of the endearing 'wanton,'... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1889 - 354 pages
...sunk in ways of debauchery than any of his fellows ; 'tis a mother's song to her child : — • " Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. Streaming tears that never stint, Like pearl-drops from a flint, Fell by course from his eyes, That... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 632 pages
...I was woe, Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy Last his sorrow, first his joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee. When thou art old there's grief enough for ihee. Streaming tears that never stint, Like pearl drops from a flint, Fell by course from his eyes,... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1910 - 350 pages
...more deeply sunk in ways of debauchery than any of his fellows; 't is a mother's song to her child :"Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there 's grief enough for thee. Streaming tears that never stint, Like pearl-drops from a flint, Fell... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 pages
...him, indeed, for the word " brightsome," and for two lines of Sephestia's song to her child, — " Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there 's grief enough for thee, — which have all the innocence of the Old Age in them. Otherwise... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1890 - 226 pages
...part, Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby lept ; More he crowed, more we cried, Nature could not... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1891 - 340 pages
...part, Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby lept; More he crowed, more we cried, Nature could not... | |
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... wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. 
