And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground; Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. The Sunday Magazine - Page 3031889Full view - About this book
| England - 1843 - 832 pages
...turning — Their wind comes in our faces 1 Till our hearts turn, and our heads with pulses hurning, And the walls turn in their places ! Turns the sky in the high window hlank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the hlack flies that... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...: "Tarns the sky in the high window, blank and reeling — Turns the lung light that druppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All are turning all tho day, and wo with all I And all day the iron wheels arc droning ; And sometimes we could pray, 0... | |
| Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...underground — Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. " All day long, the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces ! Till our hearts turn, and our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places ! Turns the sky in the high window... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...coal-dark, underground — uu day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, —...window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — • Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All are turning,... | |
| United States - 1844 - 638 pages
...time others of her writings have been by that means widely circulated through the United States. « All day, the wheels are droning, turning,— Their...window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All are turning, all... | |
| United States - 1844 - 648 pages
...time others of her writings have Ъееп by that means widely circulated through the United States. " All day, the wheels are droning, turning,— Their...heads, with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their placesTurns the slcy in the high window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...coal-dark underground, — Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. "For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, —...window blank and reeling, — Turns the long light thatdroppeth down the wall,Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, — All are turning,... | |
| University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...oar hearts tarn — oar heads, with pulses burning. And the walls turn in their places — Tarns tlic sky in the high window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — Torn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All are turning, all... | |
| Christianity - 1846 - 588 pages
...ceaseless uniformity of revolution. ' — All day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind cornea in our faces, — Till our hearts turn, — our heads,...Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling — Tunis the long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the... | |
| 1846 - 592 pages
...all is hard order and method, change without variety, and ceaseless uniformity of revolution. ' — All day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their...turn, — our heads, with pulses burning, And the walla turn in their places — Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling — Turns the long... | |
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