Pewter spoon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone, gray and rude! O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra;... The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 229by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1897 - 404 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wing swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the...of fire. I was monarch: pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy! Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra ; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the...of fire. I was monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes... | |
| Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frog's orchestra; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the...of fire. I was monarch; pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 276 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied frog's orchestra ; And to light the noisy choir, Lit the...fire ; — I was monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! 5. Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can, Though the flinty... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra ; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the...of fire. I was monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra ; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the...of fire. I was monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes... | |
| 1853 - 322 pages
...wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frog's orchestra; And to light the noisy quire Lit the fly his lamp of fire. I was monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the harefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can. Though the flinty slopes be hard,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' ny barefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little niun, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied 8 frogs' orchestra ; .And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the...of fire. I was monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! 5. Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty... | |
| 1872 - 660 pages
...fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra, And to light the noisy choir Lit the fly...of fire. I was monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy. Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can. Though the flinty slopes... | |
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