 Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...  The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 106by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...humanizing influence in the world. S " 0 what would the world be to us If the children were no more ! We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...the leaves are to the forest, With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...wood. — That to the world are children ; Through thern it feels their glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pages
...I what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We shonld dread the desert behind ua Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, 0 ye children 1 And whimper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...have toiled in vain ; CHILDREN. Ah, what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 pages
...And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more P We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Thau reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and... | |
 | Helen Lester (fict.name.) - 1859 - 288 pages
...SHOBIRL, PRINTER, 37. DEAN STRUT, Soiio, \\. HELEN LESTER, CHAPTER I. " What the leaves are to the fruit, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender...the glow Of a brighter and .'sunnier climate Than reaches'the trunks below." LONGFELLOW. In a long, low, old-fashioned house, called the Grange, about... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...sweet refrain touch our hearts : " Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark...sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood — * Blanchard. 92 " That to the world are children ; Through these it feels the glow Of a brighter... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...tender juices Have been hardened into wood — 92 " That to the world are children ; Through these it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. " Come to me, 0 ye children I And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | 1859 - 440 pages
...And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what wonld the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves arc to tho forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened... | |
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