 God has touched him! why should we!' Said an old wife mourning her only son, "Cut the rogue's tether and let him run!" So with soft relentings and rude excuse, Half scorn, half pity, they cut him loose, And gave him a cloak to hide him in, And left him...  Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 206by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 413 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1901 - 578 pages
...Aldine ed.) alludes to a man thus put to shame for lechery. Whittier describee a sea captain :— Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart Tarred and feathered, and carried in a cart, By the women of Marblehead. CHAS. P. PHINN. Watford. SWEENY TODD (9 th S. vii. 508; viii. 131,168). —The suggestion... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1901 - 690 pages
...Aldine ed.) alludes to a man thus put to shame for lechery. Whittier describes a sea captain : — Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart Tarred and feathered, and carried in a cart, By the women of Marblehead. CHAS. P. PHINN. Watford. SWEENY TODD (9th S. vii. 508; viii. 131, 168). — The suggestion... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " God has touched him ! why should we ? " Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether and...feathered, and carried in a cart, By the women of Marblehead. SHIEL'S REPLY TO LORD LYNDHURST, In the British Parliament, when he called the Irish "... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 674 pages
...wife of the Skipper lost at sea Said, ' God has toucht him ! — why should we 1 ' Said an old wife mourning her only son, ' Cut the rogue's tether and let him run ! ' So with soft rclentings and rude excuse, Half scorn, half pity, they cut him loose, And gave him a cloak to hide... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " God has touched him ! — why should we ? " Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether and...him run ! " So with soft relentings and rude excuse, And gave Lira a cloak to hide him in, And left him alone with his shame and sin. Poor Floyd Ireson,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " God has touched him ! why should we ?" Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether and...feathered, and carried in a cart. By the women of Mnrblehead. WHAT I LIVE FOR. (O. LINX'Kl'S RANKS.) I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " God has touched him !—why should we?" Said an old wife mourning her only son, "Cut the rogue's tether and...and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.—ALFRED TENUTSOK. a league, half a league, Half a league... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...tether and let him run 1" So with soft relentings and rude excuse, Half scorn, half pity, they :ut him loose, And gave him a cloak to hide him in, And left him alone with his shame and sin. Poor Fioyd Ireson, for Us hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " God has touched him !— why should we ? " Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether and...him run ! " So with soft relentings and rude excuse, And gave hira a cloak to hide him in, And Teft him alone with his shame and sin. Poor Floyd Ireson,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1870 - 106 pages
...the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him! — why should we ?" Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether and...and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! COBBLER KEEZAR'S VISION. 'TPHE beaver cut his timber -*- With patient teeth that day,... | |
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