 Whose louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image, but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet a happy one, Stealing, when daylight's common tasks are done, An hour for mother's work, and singing...  Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries:: With Recollections of the Author ... - Page 89by Leigh Hunt - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Margaret Sullivan Mooney - English literature - 1895 - 350 pages
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image, but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife — A poor, a pensive,...low While her tired husband and her children sleep. This poem by Leigh Hunt gives quite clearly and fully the services that the Dryads were supposed to... | |
 | Margaret Sullivan Mooney - English literature - 1900 - 352 pages
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image, but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife — A poor, a pensive,...low While her tired husband and her children sleep. This poem by Leigh Hunt gives quite clearly and fully the services that the Dryads were supposed to... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1909 - 374 pages
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image, but whose deep, Low lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...work, and singing low While her tired husband and her ch1ldren sleep. Leigh Hunt. .188. SSJl GALAHAD. My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 pages
...the example was of service even to 1dm, a man. It was thought a miracle that the Earl of Effingham was saved. It was driven into Swansea bay : and borne...for mother's work ; and singing low, While her tired hnsband and her children sleep." I have spoken of my mother during my father's troubles in England.... | |
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