 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence ; Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1872 - 296 pages
...The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From m)- study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad...Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my stndy I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. Rom my study I sec hers but stewards of their excellence. The summer's...flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it onl hair. A whisper and then a silence ; Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. y hair. A whisper and then a silence ; Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. 3. From my study, I see, in the lamplight, Descending...Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith, with golden hair. 4. A whisper, and then a silence; Yet I know by their merry eyes, They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Child life - 1874 - 300 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper and then a silence ; Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | 1876 - 508 pages
...above me The patter of little feet ; The sound of a door that is opened, • And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight. Descending the...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper and then a silence, Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together... | |
 | Hermann Marcus Kottinger - 1877 - 334 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, And the sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamp-light, Descending...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence, Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
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I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. 
