 OH, when I was a tiny boy, My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the teardrop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found...  The Torch - Página 106Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 páginas
...nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind !...thoughts the string ! My marbles — once my bag was stored,Now I must play with Elgin's lord, With Theseus for a taw ! My playful horse has slipt his string,... | |
 | 1857 - 468 páginas
...and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind!...is all my top, And careful thoughts the string! My marbles—once my bag was stored,— Now I must play with Elgin's lord, With Theseus for a taw! My... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 páginas
...kind ! No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! 2. A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those...alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string ! 8. My kite,"1 how fast and far it flew ! Whilst I, a sort of Franklin," drew My pleasure from the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 páginas
...! No wonder that I sometimes nigh, And dash the tear-drop from iny eye. To cast a look beliind ! 2. A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found A top a joyous tiling : But now those pant delights I drop ; My head, alas ! if all my tup, And careful thoughts the... | |
 | 1895 - 722 páginas
...of St Paul's, or in a balloon with Mr Graham, the aeronaut. Or again in " a retrospective view " — "A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those...! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string. The Arabian Nights rehearsed in bed, The Fairy Tales in school-time read By stealth twixt verb and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 páginas
...kind ! No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! 2 A hoop was 'an eternal round Of pleasure. In those...alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string ! 8. My kite,131 how fast and far it flew ! Whilst I, a sort of Franklin," drew My pleasure from the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 498 páginas
...nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind !...thoughts the string ! My marbles,— once my bag was stored,— Now I must play with Elgin's lord, With Theseus for a taw ! My playful horse has slipt his... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 páginas
...head, alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string ! My marbles, — once my bag was stored, Now I must play with Elgin's lord, With Theseus for a taw ! My playful horse has slipt his string ! Forgotten all his capering, And harnessed to the law ! My... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 páginas
...nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind !...thoughts the string! My marbles— once my bag was stored — Now I must play with Elgin's lord, With Theseus for a taw! My playful horse has slipp'd... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 468 páginas
...nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind !...thoughts the string ! My marbles — once my bag was stored, — Now I must play with Elgin's lord, With Theseus for a taw ! My playful horse has slipt... | |
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