Poems Written for a Child: By Two Friends [miss M. B. Smedley and Mrs E. A. Hart. with Illustrations - Softcover

Smedley, Menella Bute

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535808594 ISBN 13: 9781535808590

Publisher: Gale and the British Library, 1868

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...I love thee not; To lie in dreamless slumber Through hours I cannot number Is childhood's hapless lot. Lovely the moon and stars may be; Their loveliness is not for me, In sleep they are forgot. How pleasant is the morning! Bright earth and dewy sky Delicious tears are weeping, And rivulets are leaping, And breezes nutter by; grass, And birds and flowers and trees and And changeful shadows as they pass, Enchant the eager eye. How pleasant is the morning! How bountiful is He Who made delight a duty And filled the earth with beauty, And gave us eyes to see! Rejoice, O happy world, rejoice, And raise to Him thy merry voice, Childhood serene and free. EVENING. It is the hour of evening When nature is at rest: Each weary bird is sleeping Within its pleasant nest; The bee hath ceased its humming, The fish no longer springs, Even the happy butterfly Closeth its shining wings. The pretty flowers are lying Half hidden in the grass; They cannot hear our footsteps Or our voices as we pass. For all their darling blossoms Are shut in slumber deep, Just like the eyes of children When they are fast asleep! The little stars are twinkling, See how they shine and shake; The little stars are sleepy, They cannot keep awake. The moon has hidden from us, She is so very proud; But I know that she is sleeping Behind yon silver cloud. It is the hour of evening, As all creation feels; The world is very beautiful While slumber o'er it steals. No sound profanes the silence Of its unbroken peace, But the flowing of the water That can never, never cease. The flowing of the water Is a very sleepy sound; The lullaby of nature, With silence all around; The music of the night-time, It stealeth to repose. The never resting water, How sleepily it flows! BIRDS. Many voices in the...

About this edition

• Publisher: Gale and the British Library
• Publication date: 1868
• ISBN 10: 1535808594
• ISBN 13: 9781535808590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334