 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring-brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She 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... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring- brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw his rein. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walla Stretched away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinnet... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider...chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, " It might have been ! " Alas for maiden, alas... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1877 - 104 pages
...the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the tipple- tree again She saw a rider draw his rein. And, gazing down...wheel to a spinnet turned, The tallow candle an astral hurned, And for him who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
...in the meadow lot, An d she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall. In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider...by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe ai^d mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1878 - 708 pages
...in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring-brook fall Over the road-side, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider...kitchen walls Stretched away into stately halls ; The wear}' wheel to a spinnet turned, The tallow candle an astral burned, 462 And for him who sat by the... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall — In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider...narrow kitchen walls Stretched away into stately halls j The weary wheel to a spinnet turned, The tallow candle an astral burned, And for him who sat by the... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1878 - 422 pages
...the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall — In the shade of the apple-trees again She saw a rider draw his rein, And, gazing down...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 him who sat by the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 pages
...in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall Over the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider...rein. And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt hin pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched away into stately hall»... | |
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... and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot. And she heard the little spring brook... 
