| Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...and what grief remained, remained to sanctify. So let us follow her into her woman's kingdom, where ' A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law.' How anxious she was to fulfil that duty and be true to that law, and how strongly was blended therewith... | |
| American periodicals - 1855 - 846 pages
...down with a timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her narrow kitchen wall) Stretched away into stately halls ; The weary wheel...candle an astral burned, And for him who sat by the chimney-Ing Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw. And joy was duty... | |
| David W. Bartlett - Reformers - 1855 - 440 pages
...saw a rider draw his rein, And, gazing down with a timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched...candle an astral burned, And for him who sat by the chimney-Ing Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty... | |
| David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 408 pages
...spinnet turned, The tallow candle an astral burned, And for him who sat by the chimney-Ing ftozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love ancUaw. Then she took up the burden of life again, Saying only, "It might have been." Alas for maiden,... | |
| 1857 - 686 pages
...saw a rider draw his rein. " And, gazing down with timid grace, See felt his pleased eyes read her face. " Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched...candle an astral burned, " And for him who sat by the chimney-lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe ana inug, *• A manly form at her sido she saw, And joy... | |
| American literature - 1857 - 694 pages
...saw a rider draw his rein. " And, gazing down with timid grnee, See felt his pleased eyes road her face. " Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched...halls; "The weary wheel to a spinnet turned, The tallow candlo an astral burned, " And for him who sat by the chimuey-lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe ana... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...a rider draw his rein. And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face, The weary wheel to a spinnet turned, The tallow candle...and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her aide she saw, And joy was duty, and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying... | |
| Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth - Fiction - 1859 - 402 pages
...away into stately halls ; The wiary wheel to a spinnet turned, The tallow candle an astral burned ; A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. — WHITTIER.. ON the same Saturday morning that Herbert Greyson hurried away from his friend's cottage... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 560 pages
...a rider draw his rein. And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. The weary wheel to a spinnet turned, The tallow candle an astral burned, And for Igm who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinnet turn'd, The tallow candle an astral buru'd, And for him who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A maniy form at her side she saw, And joy was duty, and love was law. Then she took up her burden of... | |
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