 Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while; Then, like a musical adept. To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a...  New York Teachers' Monographs - Page 461905Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1888 - 326 pages
..." " One ? fifty thousand ! " — was the exclamation Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation. VII. Into the street the Piper slept, Smiling first a little...knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while ; To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle-flame... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1889 - 332 pages
...was the exclamation Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation. VII. '* Into the street the Piper stept, Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic...And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if... | |
 | Charles Francis Keary - Archaeology - 1889 - 396 pages
...profanation to tell the enchanted legend otherwise than in the enchanted language of Browning : — ' Into the street the piper slept, Smiling first a little...like a musical adept ' To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled.1 Then the townsfolk, freed from their burden, refused the piper his promised reward, and... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 pages
...was the exclamation Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation. VII. Into the street the Piper stept, Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic...And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 pages
...— was the exclamation Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation. YH. Into the street the Piper stept, Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic...And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled. Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered. You heard as if... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Recitations - 1889 - 356 pages
..." — was the exclamation Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation. Into the street the Piper stept, Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1891 - 422 pages
...was the exclamation Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation. VII. Into the street the Piper stept, Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic...And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three 'shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...difficulty, and they promise him a thousand guilders if he does : — "Into the street the Piper stept, Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic...his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eye twinkled Like a candlo flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 482 pages
...difficulty, and they promise him a thousand guilders if he does. ' Into the street the Piper stept, Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic...his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eye twinkled Like a candle-flame when salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...Mayor and Corporation Into the street the Piper slept, Smiling first a litlle smile, As if he knew whal magic slept In his quiet pipe the while; Then, like a musical adept, To blow the pipe his lips he «Tinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled. Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled:... | |
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