 | Elizabeth Hill Spalding - 1896 - 156 pages
...stepping-stoue to higher things. Is there a boy or girl that will turn away from the following ? — " I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and...my delight Through the day and through the night." What if the child with slowly-awakening mind choose a material theme? So much the better for him, if... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - 1896 - 208 pages
...and towers, And groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in the grass and the flowers." "Laughed the brook for my delight, Through the day...the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall." "The little brook heard it and built a roof, 'Neath which he housed him winter proof, All night by... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1896 - 392 pages
...June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for. w I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and...squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 328 pages
...things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming birds and honeybees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied...the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; 1 ar-chi-tec'tur-al, pertaining to mode of building. 2 ar ti-sans. workmen. * es-chew'-ing, avoiding.... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 338 pages
...things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for, I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming birds and honeybees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied...the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; 1 ar-chi-tec'tur-al, pertaining to mode of building. 2 arti sans, workmen. Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...encouraged and aided by his mother, he made its literary and religious treasures a permanent possession. " I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and...my delight Through the day and through the night." The monotony of the hospitable farmhouse was relieved now and then by the visits of peddlers. Strolling... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for ! 1 was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees...brook for my delight, Through the day, and through the nigt Whispering at the garden wall. Talked with me from fall to fall ; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
 | Elizabeth Hill Spalding - 1896 - 138 pages
...stepping-stone to higher things. Is there a boy or girl that will turn away from the following ? — " I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and...mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone I'urpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night."... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1898 - 212 pages
...Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for. 5o I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and...squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1898 - 298 pages
...Shape of that thy work of art." Whittier learned, with Burns' help, to count his treasures aright. " I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and...sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his trade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight... | |
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I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees ; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through... 
