 | Literature - 1902 - 874 pages
...the most lovable among them being that charming unhappy child of Coventry Patmore's, who, sent to bed "with hard words and unkissed, His mother, who was patient, being dead," is found asleep with wet eyelashes beside his treasures: For, on a table drawn beside his head. He... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...little poem, though scarcely any one will read it without a sob, and none will ever forget it : — "My little son, who looked from thoughtful eyes, And moved...quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His mother, who was patient, being... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 798 pages
...lightest and most terrestrial of these odes is that entitled "The Toys": — " My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes, And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His Mother, who was patient, being... | |
 | 1877 - 790 pages
...lightest and most terrestrial of these odes is that entitled "The Toys":— "My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes, And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His Mother, who was patient, being... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 418 pages
...Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and u'nkiss'd, His Mother, who was patient, being dead. Then, fearing...visited his bed, But found him slumbering deep, With darken'd eyelids, and their lashes yet From his late sobbing wet. And I, with moan, Kissing away his... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...floods Had first been gathered there. RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH. THE TOYS. • little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes, And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey 'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His Mother, who was patient,... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 462 pages
...floods Had first been gathered there. RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH. xcv. THE TOYS. little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes, And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His Mother, who was patient, being... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - English poetry - 1879 - 264 pages
...Country's best, its accent hit, And partly sound its polity. THE TOYS. JV/TY little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes, *"* And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His Mother, who was patient, being... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - English poetry - 1879 - 248 pages
...Country's best, its accent hit, And partly sound its polity. THE TOYS. JV/TY little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes, And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His Mother, who was patient, being... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1880 - 434 pages
...read Patmore's lines, ' My Little Son' ? No ? Well, I will say them, for they are on my heart: '• My little son, who looked from thoughtful eyes, And moved...quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His mother, who was patient, being... | |
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THE TOYS My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His Mother, who was patient, being dead. 
