| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1856 - 794 pages
...parish poor, WhoM walla of mud scarce bear the broken door ; l'hère, where the putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...there ; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Korsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears. And crippled age with... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; • There, where the putrid vapors flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; There children dwell who know no parent's care ; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears,... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - Workhouses - 1860 - 110 pages
...take its long lonely journey. Oh, how true of the Workhouse are the words:— " Children are there, who know no parents' care, Parents who know no children's...there, Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Deserted wives, and mothers never wed; There wretched widows shed unheeded tears, And crippled age... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1864 - 608 pages
...parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce hear the broken door : There, where the putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day : There children dwell, who know no parent's care ; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons on their Joyless... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1865 - 86 pages
...pariah poor, Whose wafts of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears ; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot, and the madman... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1865 - 92 pages
...parish poor, Whose walk of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...know no children's love, dwell there ! Heart-broken mations on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded... | |
| James Suter - Levites - 1867 - 112 pages
...DISCOMFORTS OF THE POOEHOUSE. From Crabbe's " Village." THERE, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears. Here, too, the sick their final doom receive, Here brought, amid the scenes of grief,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...pariah poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ! There, where the putrid vapors, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless lied, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed, Dejected widows with unheeded tears. And crippled age... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - English literature - 1869 - 528 pages
...parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there ; * A pauper who, being nearly past his labour, is employed by different masters for a length of time... | |
| Chalmers association - 1870 - 252 pages
...the present day as I am capable of giving. Step into any one of moderate size, and what do we see ? " There children dwell who know no parents' care ; Parents,...with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears ; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they, The moping idiot and the madman... | |
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