 | Robert Herrick - 1900 - 296 pages
...thy benediction, That one of all the rest shall be The glory of my work and me. is 193 3 GRACE FOB A CHILD HERE a little child I stand Heaving up my...a benison to fall On our meat and on us all. Amen. 4 TO HIS CONSCIENCE CAN I not sin, but thou wilt be My private prothonotary? Can I not woo thee, to... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1901 - 494 pages
...who lives to virtue ; men who cast Their ends for pleasure, do not live, but last. Robert Herrick 219 GRACE FOR A CHILD Here, a little child, I stand, Heaving...benison to fall On our meat, and on us all. Amen. Robert Herrick A FAREWELL My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies... | |
 | Mary Pamela Ellis Milne-Home - Flowers - 1901 - 380 pages
...I have recognised hereabouts, has a charming little " Grace before Meat " for a child, as follows : Here a little child I stand Heaving up my either hand,...benison to fall On our meat and on us all ! Amen. Boy asked why Toadstools had that name. " Do toads sit on them ? Did you ever see one sitting on a... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...nature that has been far too often overlooked. We can hardly think ill of one who can write like this : "Here, a little child, I stand, Heaving up my either...benison to fall On our meat and on us all. Amen." Paddock, a toad. Herbert and Crashaw were two of the most distinguished writers of religious verse.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...and needy grown, You're left here to lament Your poor estates, alone. H! 271. A Child's Grace [ERE a little child I stand Heaving up my either hand ;...a benison to fall On our meat and on us all. Amen. 272. Epitaph upon a Child that died I_J ERE she lies, a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 522 pages
...reveal'd, And that open'd which was seal'd ; When to Thee I have appeal'd, Sweet Spirit, comfort me I GRACE FOR A CHILD. Here, a little child, I stand,...as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to thec, For a benison to fall On our meat, and on our all Ametv THE DIRGE OF JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER. O them,... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1902 - 440 pages
...SERv'D HONOUR thy Parents ; but good manners call Thee to adore thy God, the first of all. ANOTHER GRACE FOR A CHILD HERE a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as Paddocks 1 though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, For a Benizon to fall On our meat, and on us all. Amen.... | |
 | 1909 - 522 pages
...the composition achieved fame as Grace before Meat, a perfect illustration of Herrick's lovelylines, "Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either...paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to thee." But the real joy of the picture to its maker was that the look of apparent sanctity and holy calm upon... | |
 | Henry Lancelot Dixon - Grace at meals - 1903 - 288 pages
...dish. He the Church save, and the k; And our peace here, like. a spri Make it ever flourishing. Another grace for a child. Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand. Cold as puddochs m though they be Still I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall On our meat and on us... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 862 pages
...flourishing." "Here, a little child, I stand Heaving up my either hand ; 1 [See above, ยง 8, p. 260.] Cold as Paddocks ' though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee. For a Bern/on to fall, On our meat, aud on us all." These verses, or such as these, Agnes should be able... | |
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Grace for a Child. HERE a little child I stand. Heaving up my either hand ; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall On our meat and on us all. Amen. 
