When scarcely I was four years old, my life A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail; She could not bear the joy of giving life, The mother's rapture slew her. Poems - Página 2por Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1881 - 502 páginas
...guilt-stricken, to our Heavenly FATHER, —and then we should go out and weep bitterly. CHAPTER II. " 1 felt a mother-want about the world, And still went...like a bleating lamb Left out at night in shutting up the fold — As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away. . . ."... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 420 páginas
...life, A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail ; She could not bear the joy of giving life — The...like a bleating lamb Left out at night, in shutting up the fold, — As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away, though... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 páginas
...life, A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail ; She could not bear the joy of giving life — The...like a bleating lamb Left out at night, in shutting up the fold, — As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away, though... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 páginas
...life, A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail ; She could not bear the joy of giving life — The...like a bleating lamb Left out at night, in shutting up the fold, — As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away, though... | |
| Parthene Ballard Chamberlain - 1865 - 382 páginas
...household treasures; and then he sent her, with her little charge, to the parsonage. CHAPTER IV. • ' " As it was, indeed, I felt a mother-want about the...like a bleating lamb Left out at night in shutting up the fold, — . As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away, though... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1870 - 533 páginas
...life A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail ; She could not bear the joy of giving life— The mother's...like a bleating lamb Left out at night in shutting up the fold,— As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away, though... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 348 páginas
...life A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail; She could not bear the joy of giving life, The mother's...like a bleating lamb Left out at night in shutting up the fold, — As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away, though... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 540 páginas
...life A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was wer.k and frail \She could not bear the joy of giving life— The...like a bleating lamb Left out at night in shutting up the fold, — As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away, though... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 428 páginas
...life A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail ; She could not bear the joy of giving life, The mother's...soul With the new order. As it was, indeed, I felt a mother- want about the world, And still went seeking, like a bleating lamb Left out at night in shutting... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1874 - 482 páginas
...life A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail ; She could not bear the joy of giving life — The...like a bleating lamb Left out at night in shutting up the fold, — As restless as a nest-deserted bird Grown chill through something being away, though... | |
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