 CHRISTMAS EVE, and twelve of the clock. " Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there...  The Living Age - Pagina 481922Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pagine
...They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years ! Yet, I feel, If some one said on Christmas Eve, " Come ; see the oxen kneel " In the lonely barton by yonder coomb... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1916 - 252 pagine
...They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years ! Yet, I feel, If some one said on Christmas Eve, " Come ; see the oxen kneel " In the lonely barton by yonder coomb... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1917 - 284 pagine
...They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years ! Yet,...should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so. So THE TRESSES " WHEN the air was damp It made my curls hang slack As they kissed my neck and back... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pagine
...There is a whole parable of life in the poem on the tradition of the oxen kneeling on Christmas Eve. I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come ; see...should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so. How Wordsworthian, again, is The Dear, in which he describes his chance meeting on the hill-tops with... | |
 | 1917 - 318 pagine
...doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few believe In these years ! Yet, I feel. If some one said on Christmas eve. "Come ; see the oxen kneel....should go with him in the gloom. Hoping it might be so. Tombstone Inscriptions SOME CURIOUS, SOME NOTABLE, SOME COMMONPLACE. Collected and Annotated by EDGAR... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1917 - 278 pagine
...They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years ! Yet,...Come ; see the oxen kneel " In the lonely barton by jionder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1919 - 260 pagine
...weave In these years I Yet, I feel, If some one said on Christmas Eve, " Come ; see the oxen kneel " Tn the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used...should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so. The mood of faith, however — or, rather, of delight in the memory of faith — is not Mr. Hardy's... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1919 - 266 pagine
...They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years ! Yet, I feel. If some one said on Christmas Eve, " Come ; see the oxen kneel " Tn the lonely barton by yonder coomb... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1919 - 266 pagine
...They dwelt in their strawy pen. Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years ! Yet, I feel, II some one said on Christmas Eve, " Come ; see the oxen kneel " In the lonely barton by yonder coomb... | |
 | Lettice D'Oyly Walters - 1920 - 164 pagine
...pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few believe In these years ! Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas...should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so. THOMAS HARDY RETURN TO DESK FROM WHICH BORROWED t^ae This book is due on the last date stamped below,... | |
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