 ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart, as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few...  Vermont School Journal and Family Visitor - Page 1691861Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...TO SLEEP. BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as ot yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care. Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over... | |
 | 1876 - 832 pages
...Time ! in thy flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night ; Mother, come back from the echolesa shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss...my hair, Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! " And when extreme old ago has enfeebled the mental powers,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...Time, in yourflight, Make me a child again just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the ccholess shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss...of my hair, Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; Koek me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of years ! I am so weary... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pages
...Lowell BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight ! Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore • Take...care ; Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair j Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; Hock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep ! Backward,... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 404 pages
...your flight, Make me a child again—just for to night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, v Take me again to your heart as of yore;• Kiss from...my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep — Rock me to sleep, Mother—rock me to sleep! Backward, flow backward, O swift ti;le of years !... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1861 - 788 pages
...BACKWARD, turn backward, 0 TIM« ! in rour Sight, Make me a child again — just for to-night ! MOTHIB, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart aa of yore : Kias from my forehead the furrows of care, .Smooth the few silver thread« out of my hair... | |
 | 1723 - 216 pages
...TO SLEEP, MOTHER. JACKWARD, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for a night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore,...Bock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Backward, turn backward, 0 tide of my years ! I am so weary of toil and of tears ; Toil without recompense, tears... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1864 - 244 pages
...for to-night ! Mother, come back from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, — Bock...— rock me to sleep. « Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of the years ! I am BO weary of toils and of tears, Toil without recompense, — tears all in... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1864 - 258 pages
...Time, in your flight! Make me a ehild again. j ust for to-night ! Mother, eome baek from the eeholess shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore— Kiss from my forehead the furrows of earo, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair— Over my slumbers your loving wateh keep — Roek... | |
 | Lydia M. Millard - Women authors, American - 1865 - 276 pages
...sings, — " Backward, turn backward, 0 Time in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night; Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore." I hear, through the half-open door, the deep full tones of the sweetest, richest manly voice, mingling... | |
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