 INGLORIOUS FRIEND ! most confident I am Thy "life is one of very little ease ; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being ' happy as a clam ! ' What though thy shell protects thy fragile head From the sharp bailiffs of the briny sea ?...  A Centennial History of St. Albans, Vermont - Strana 33podľa Henry Kingman Adams - 1889 - Počet stránok 149Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1850 - Počet stránok 160
...confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease ; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being " happy as a clam ! " What though thy shell...free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off, — as foemen take their spoil, Far from thy friends and family to roam; Forced, like a Hessian, from thy... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1852 - Počet stránok 200
...confident I am Thy life is one of very little case ; Albeit men mock thee with thy similes And prate of being ' happy as a clam ! ' What though thy shell...free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off, — as foemen take their spoil, — Far from thy friends and family to roam ; Forced, like a Hessian, from... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1853 - Počet stránok 200
...confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease ; ,j Albeit men mock thee with thy similes And prate of being ' happy as a clam !' What though thy shell...free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off, — as foe men take their spoil,— Far from thy friends and family to roam; Forced, like a Hessian, from... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1854 - Počet stránok 216
...confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease ; Albeit men mock thce with thy similes And prate of being ' happy as a clam ! ' What though thy shell...free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off, — as foemen take their spoil,— Far from thy friends and family to roam ; Forced, like a Hessian, from... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1855 - Počet stránok 198
...confident I am Thy "life is one of very little ease ; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being ' happy as a clam ! ' What though thy shell...free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off, — as foemen take their spoil,— Far from thy friends and family to roam ; Forced, like a Hessian, from... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - Počet stránok 474
...thy fragile head From the sharp luiiliU's of the briny seal Thy valves ure, sure, no fufety-valvei to thee. While rakes are free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee oif, — as foemen take their epoil, Far from thy friends and family to roam: Forced, like n IK-ччап,... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1856 - Počet stránok 204
...confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease ; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being ' happy as a clam !' What though thy shell...rakes are free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off,—as foemen take their spoil,— Far from thy friends and family to roam ; Forced, like a Hessian,... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - Počet stránok 700
...confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being " happy as a clam!" What though thy shell...rakes are free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off—as foemen take their spoil— Far from thy friends and family to roam ; Forced, like a Hessian,... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - Počet stránok 720
...confident I am Thy We is one of very little ease ; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being " happy as a clam !" What though thy shell protects thy fragile head From the sharp bailing of the briny sea ? Thy valves are, sure, no safety-valves to thee, While rakes are free to... | |
 | James Parton - 1857 - Počet stránok 706
...confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease ; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being " happy as a clam !" What though thy shell...free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off — as foemen take their spoil — Far from thy friends and family to roam ; Forced, like a Hessian, from... | |
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