 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
..."Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door....new-mown hay in the meadow lot. And she heard the little spring-brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 846 pages
...Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay.* She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door....shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And ihe heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - Reformers - 1855 - 440 pages
...barefoot maiden raked the hay I " She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played ronnd her door. But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain,...their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the sammer snn ehone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring-brook fall... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door....new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring-brook fall Over the road-side, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. Bnt care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain Left their traces...the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow-lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, throngh the wall, In the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unleam'd and poor, And many children play'd round her door. But care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traoes on heart and brain. An ] oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay:" She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door....meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door....meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man nnlearned and poor, And many children played round her door....meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
..." Free as when I rode that day Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door....sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, 210 THE ll\'i vutK PUB:.T:IIB?ARY A'=:0 ". L - o\ •I!LD. UI: :.:. ii.'NS x WM — „ And she heard... | |
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And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain, "Ah, that I were free again! "Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay. 
