 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 592 pages
...Maud becomes the wife of an unlearned boor. Neither is happy, and each secretly regrets the other. " Maud Muller on a summer's day, Raked the meadow, sweet...glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health. But when she glanced to the far-off town, White from its hill-slope looking down, The sweet song died,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Poetry - 2004 - 219 pages
...fathers sailed the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free! Maud Muller Maud Muller, on a summer's day, Raked the meadow sweet...glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health. But, when she glanced to the far-off town, White from its hill-slope looking down, The sweet song died,... | |
 | Aharon Varady - Bond Hill (Cincinnati, Ohio) - 2005 - 217 pages
...John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). From Whittier's 1854 poem, "Maud Muller": poem, "Maud Muller." "Maud Muller, on a summer's day / Raked the meadow...glowed the wealth / Of simple beauty and rustic health" (see Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838-1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912). 29 Elizabeth Dobson,... | |
 | Stephen W. Hines - Literary Collections - 2013 - 344 pages
...helping in the hay." She has seen it many a time at home, you know, besides she had long ago read, "Maud Muller on a summer's day raked the meadow sweet with hay" so she was well used to the idea both practically and with a glamor of romance. It is rather amusing,... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 2008 - 600 pages
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MAUD MULLER, on a summer's day, Raked the meadow sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health. Singing, she wrought, and her merry glee The mock-bird echoed from his tree. But when she glanced to the far-off... 
