 Nought have I else to do ; I sing the whole day long; And He, whom most I love to please, Doth listen to my song ; • He caught and bound my wandering wing, But still He bends to hear me sing.  Bloomfield - Side 175af Elizabeth Warren - 1870 - 296 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 sider
...stanzas, entitled " A Little Bird Am I," — of which we transcribe a portion : A little bird am I, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cage I sit...there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee. My cage confines me round ; Abroad I cannot fly ; But, though my wing is closely... | |
 | 1859 - 798 sider
...raelf ; and, when at last she was released from son, she wrote them down on paper. "A little bird lam, Shut from the fields of air; And in my cage I sit and sing To Him who placed me there; Well-pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee. " Nought have I else to do, I sing... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1847 - 468 sider
...piety ; and which we venture to give to the reader in a nearly literal translation. A LITTLE BIRD I AM. A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air ;...there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee. Nought have I else to do ; I sing the whole day long; And He, whom most I love... | |
 | 1847 - 178 sider
...the world thy matchless worth rehearse. RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OP MADAME GUION.(7) A LITTLE BIRD I AM. A LITTLE bird I am, Shut from the fields of air; And...cage I sit and sing To Him, who placed me there; Well pleas'da prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee, Nought have I else to do; I sing the whole... | |
 | 1848 - 778 sider
...stanzas, entitled " A Little Bird Am I," — of which we transcribe a portion : A little bird am I, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cage I sit...there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee. My cage confines me round ; Abroad I cannot fly ; But, though my wing is closely... | |
 | 1848 - 780 sider
...of which we transcribe a portion : A little bird am I, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cagn I sit and sing To him who placed me there; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee. My cage confines me round ; Abroad I cannot fly ; But, though my wing is closely... | |
 | 1848 - 786 sider
...stanzas, entitled " A Little Bird Am I," — of which we transcribe a portion : A little bird am I, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cage I sit and sing To him w ho placed me there ; Well pleased o prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee. My cage confines... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1849 - 334 sider
...Madame Guyon, in the Bastile, uttered the experience of those who have found God in the prison : ' A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air, And...there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases thee. My cage confines me round ; Abroad I cannot fly ; But though my wing is closely... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1850 - 278 sider
...the day, the hour ! Arise, assert thy liberty ! HYMNS AND RELIGIOUS S 0 N « S. A LITTLE BIRD I AM. * A LITTLE bird I am, Shut from the fields of air ;...I sit and sing To Him, who placed me there ; Well pleas'da prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee. Nought have I else to do ; I sing- the whole... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1852 - 288 sider
...to be free, Awake ! 'T is now the day, the hour ! Arise, assert thy liberty! 12 A LITTLE BIRD I AM.* A LITTLE bird I am, Shut from the fields of air; And...there ; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee. Nought have I else to do ; I sing the whole day long; And He, whom most I love... | |
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