| England - 1843 - 832 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as gnow. For, all day, we drag our hurden tiring, Through the coal-dark underground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. " All day long, the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces 1 Till our hearts... | |
| Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...trying to go ; And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. " All day long, the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces ! Till our hearts... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...sorely in the stooping — i day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground — uu day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, — ^ Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our... | |
| University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...to fao ; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning — Thuir wind comes in our faces — * Poems by Elizabeth... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...to go ; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow, For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. "For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces ; Till our hearts... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...trying to go ; And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow; For all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the...the wheels of iron In the factories round and round. All day long the wheels are droning, turning, Their wind comes in our faces ! Till our hearts turn,... | |
| John Spence (jr.), Young physician - England - 1847 - 184 pages
...picture of factory life, which I transcribe at the risk of being tedious and lengthy in these extracts : "All day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round ; All day long, the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces ! Till our hearts... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 318 pages
...to go ; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. Till our hearts turn, — our heads, with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places — Turns... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Children's poetry, English - 1850 - 596 pages
...to go ; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. VII. " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our... | |
| M. Edgeworth Lazarus - Christianity and other religions - 1852 - 146 pages
...underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For all day long we drag our burden, tiring, Through the coal-dark...wheels of iron In the factories round and round." Every organ grows and strengthens itself by its normal or harmonic action, which varies only within... | |
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