 The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifting snow : Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone. " O God ! " she cried in accents wild, " If I must perish,...  The Bowdoin Poets - Page 26by Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 pages
...wander'd with her child. As through the drifted snows she press'd The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, * In the month of December, 1821, a Mr. Blake, with his wife and an infant, were passing over the Green... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1833 - 150 pages
...wan-dered with her child. As through the drift-ed snow she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. 5. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night come on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow, — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone; " O... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And.colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow— Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone. "O God," she cried in accents wild,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew ths drifts of snow — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone-:"O God," she cried, in accents... | |
 | 1837 - 488 pages
...child — As through the drifting snow she presi'd, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder yet the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of enow— Her limbs were chill'd— her strength was gon«. Oh God ! she cried, in accents... | |
 | 1837 - 486 pages
...— As through the drifting snow she press'd, The babe \vas sleeping on her breast: , And colder yet the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And dcrprr L^rnw the drifts of snow — Heг lunhsVerc chill'd— her strength was gone. Oh Uod ! she cried,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...wander'd with her child; As through the drifting snow she press'd The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow. And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were chill'd, her strength was gone. " O God !" she cried, in accents... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 328 pages
...wander'd with her child : As through the drifting snow she press'd,. The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours...And deeper grew the drifting snow : Her limbs were chill'd, her strength was gone r " Oh, God !" she cried, in accents wild, " If I must perish, save... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...space— time — eternity. In the following stanza there is a demicacsura : And 'colder still | the wind did blow, And darker hours | of night came on ; And deeper grew | the drifts of snow, Her limbs were chilled, | her strength was gone. III. Sometimes, by design of the poet,... | |
 | 1841 - 376 pages
...wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone. " O God !" she cried, in accents... | |
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