| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1894 - 308 pages
...Meuaphon, where Sephestia puts into her lullaby the story of her parting with the child's father : — " 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 thou... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1894 - 272 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." We are apt to look for everything in Shakespeare, but in this matter... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 412 pages
...Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. 20 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 crowed, more we cried, 25 Nature could... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 pages
...Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. 20 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 crowed, more we cried, 25 Nature could... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 434 pages
...Sing lullaby, my little boy, Sing lullaby, mine only joy ! Anon. CCXLIV SEPHESTIA'S SONG TO HER CHILD WEEP not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Mother's wag, pretty boy, \ When thy father first did see Such a boy by him and me, He was glad, I... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 pages
...list, if beauty be so sower; Labor for me, Love rest in prince's bower. SEPHESTIA'S SONG TO HER CHILD. WEEP 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 5 Such a boy... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 430 pages
...was woe, Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy. 10 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, 15... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 pages
...list, if beauty be so sower; Labor for me, Love rest in prince's bower. SEPHESTSA'S SONG TO HER CHILD. WEEP 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 5 Such a boy... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...sins for the sake of his pure and beautiful verses. EDMU.NU W. GOSSE. SEPHESTIA'S SONG TO HER CHILD. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thes. Mother's wag, pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy ; When thy father first did see Such... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 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 griaf enough for thec. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt ; More he crowed, more... | |
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