 ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart, as of yore ; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few...  Female Poets of America - Sida 406efter Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1872 - 486 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sidor
...TO SLEEP. BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as ot yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care. Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over... | |
 | 1876 - 832 sidor
...Time ! in thy flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night ; Mother, come back from the echolesa shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss...loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! " And when extreme old ago has enfeebled the mental powers, and, like a wet sponge passed... | |
 | 1861 - 712 sidor
...SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time ! in your flight, Make me a child again — just for to night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me...my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep — Bock me to sleep, Mother — rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, O swift tide of years... | |
 | 1861 - 404 sidor
...your flight, Make me a child again—just for to night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, v Take me again to your heart as of yore;• Kiss from...slumbers your loving watch keep — Rock me to sleep, Mother—rock me to sleep! Backward, flow backward, O swift ti;le of years ! I am weary of toil, I... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1861 - 602 sidor
...Time, in yourflight, Make me a child again just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the ccholess shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss...of my hair, Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; Koek me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of years ! I am so weary... | |
 | 1861 - 144 sidor
...Lowell BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight ! Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore • Take...care ; Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair j Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; Hock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep ! Backward,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1861 - 788 sidor
...BACKWARD, turn backward, 0 TIM« ! in rour Sight, Make me a child again — just for to-night ! MOTHIB, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart aa of yore : Kias from my forehead the furrows of care, .Smooth the few silver thread« out of my hair... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1862 - 252 sidor
...for to-night ! Mother, come back from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, — Rock me to sleep, mother— rock me to sleep. " Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of the years ! I am so weary of toils and of tears,... | |
 | 1723 - 216 sidor
...MOTHER. JACKWARD, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for a night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me...my hair, Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Bock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Backward, turn backward, 0 tide of my years ! I am so weary... | |
 | 1864 - 258 sidor
...Time, in your flight! Make me a ehild again. j ust for to-night ! Mother, eome baek from the eeholess shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore— Kiss from my forehead the furrows of earo, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair— Over my slumbers your loving wateh keep — Roek... | |
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