 For something better than she had known. The Judge rode slowly down the lane, Smoothing his horse's chestnut mane. He drew his bridle in the shade Of the apple-trees, to greet the maid, And ask a draught from the spring that flowed Through the meadow...  The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 258by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...greet the maid ; And asked a draught from the spring that flowed Through the meadow across the road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up. And...tattered gown. "Thanks." said the judge, "a sweeter drauglit From a fairer hand was never quaffed." He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, Of the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 846 pages
...greet the maid, And ask a draught from the spring that flowed Through the meadow, aqross the road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up, And...gown. ' Thanks !" said the Judge, " a sweeter draught <>om a fairer hand was never quatTed." îc spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, Of the singing... | |
 | David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 408 pages
...greet the maid, And ask a draught from the spring that flowed Through the meadow, across the road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up, And...Thanks! " said the Judge, " a sweeter draught From fairer hand was never quaffed." He spoke of the grass, and flowers, and trees, Of the singing birds... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - Reformers - 1855 - 440 pages
...greet the maid, And ask a draught from the spring that flowed Through the meadow, across the road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up, And...her feet so bare, and her tattered gown. " Thanks I " said the Judge, " a sweeter draught From fairer hand was never quaffed." He spoke of the grass,... | |
 | 1857 - 678 pages
...across the road. " She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up And filled for him her small tin-cup. "And blushed as she gave it, looking down On her feet...a fairer hand was never quaffed.' "He spoke of the grase, and flowers, and trees, Of the singing-birds and the humming-bees ; " Then talked of the haying,... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 694 pages
...tho maid, ••And ask a draught from the spring that flowed Through the meadow, across the road. " She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up. And filled for him her small tin-cup. "And blushed as she gave it, looking down On her feet so bare and her tattered gown. "•Thanks!'... | |
 | 1858 - 882 pages
...to greet the maid, And ask a draught from the spring thit flowed Through the meadow across the road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up, And...Judge, "a sweeter draught From a fairer hand was never quaflbd." Пс spoke of the grass and flowers and trees. Of the singing birds and the humming bees;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...greet the maid ; And asked a draught from the spring that flowed Through the meadow across the road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up, And...filled for him her small tin cup, And blushed as she gare it, looking down On her feet so bare, and her tattered gown. " Thanks I" said the Judge, " a sweeter... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...road. She stoop'd where the cool spring bubbled up, And fill'd for him her small tin cup, And blush'd as she gave it, looking down On her feet so bare, and her tatter'd gown. "Thanks!" said the Judge, "a sweeter draught From a fairer hand was never quaff 'd."... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...to greet the maid, And ask a draught from the spring that flowed Through the meadow across the road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up. And...sweeter draught From a fairer hand was never quaffed." lie spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, Of the singing birds and the humming bees ; Then talked... | |
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