 My listening angel heard the prayer, And calmly smiling, said, " If I but touch thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish hath sped. "But is there nothing in thy track To bid thee fondly stay, While the swift seasons hurry back To find the wished-for day?  The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes - Page 330by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1864 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1858 - 974 pages
...age I Away with learning's crown! Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down ! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's...one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame ! . I My listening angel heard the prayer, And calmly smiling, said, "If I but touch thy silvered hair,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...page, And dash its trophies down ! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's fount of flame I Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love...swift seasons hurry back To find the wished-for day ? " — Ah, truest soul of womankind ! Without thee, what were life ? One bliss I cannot leave behind... | |
 | 1858 - 518 pages
...agel Away with learning's crown! Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down I One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's..." If I but touch thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish had sped. " But is there nothing in thy track To bid thee fondly stay, While the swift seasons hurry... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1858 - 598 pages
...page, And dash its trophies down ! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's fount of flame 1 Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love...heard the prayer, And calmly smiling, said, "If I bnt touch thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish has sped. f- "But is there nothing in thy track. To bid... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...wisdom-wiitten page, And dash its trophies down 1 One moment let my life-blood From boyhood's fount of flome 1 Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame 1 — My listening angel heard the prayo* And calmly smiling, said, "If I but touch thy silvered hair,... | |
 | 1858 - 1074 pages
...dash Its trophies down ! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhoods fjinit of tlamc ' Uive inc one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame [ —My listening ancx-1 heard the prayer. And ealnily smiling, mid, •• If I but touch thy lilrenxl hair, Thy hasty... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 pages
...age ! Away with learning's crown ! Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down ! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's...swift seasons hurry back To find the wished-for day ? " — Ah, truest soul of womankind ! Without thee, what were life ? One bliss I cannot leave behind... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 pages
...age ! Away with learning's crown ! Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down ! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's...one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame 1 — My listening angel heard the prayer, And, calmly smiling, said, " If I but touch thy silvered... | |
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