 Live and laugh, as boyhood can! Though the flinty slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the cool wind kiss the heat: All too soon these feet...  The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 232by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...the cool wind kiss the heat ; All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy ' LINES ON A SKELETON. SHOLD this ruin ! 'tis a skull, Once of ethereal spirit full ! This narrow cell... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - Readers - 1853 - 396 pages
...the cool wind kiss the hedt : All too soon these feet must hide In the prison-cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...thou couldst know thy joy Ere it passes, barefoot boy ! DEFINITIONS. — 1. Jai/n/ty, airy ; showy. 2. Hab'i tude, mode of living. Ar chi tPct'ur al, pertaining... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American poetry - 1885 - 446 pages
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat; All too soon these feet must hide In the prison-cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...couldst know thy joy Ere it passes, barefoot boy! Song of the Pioneers. SONG for the early times out West, And our green old forest home, Whose pleasant... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...Shall the cool wind kiss the beat; All too soon these feet must hide In the prison-cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...ground; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous sauds of sin. ЛЬ ! that thou couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy ! JOHN GREENLEAF WUITTIER.... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...the cool wind kiss the heat ; All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy ! JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. THE GOAT AND THE SWING. VICIOUS goat, one day, had found His way into forbidden... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 pages
...the cool wind kiss the heat : All too soon these feet must hide JlLthe prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy ! MY PSALM. I MOURN no more my vanished years : Beneath a tender rain, An April rain of smiles and... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1888 - 992 pages
...these feet must hide In the prison-cella of pride ; Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's foi work be shod; Made to tread the mills of toil Up and...couldst know thy joy Ere it passes, barefoot boy!" It is worthy of note, also, that of two words which rhyme, only one should be made emphatic. '• If... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1888 - 534 pages
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat: All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...not in Quick and treacherous sands of sin. Ah ! that then couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy ! FLOWERS IN WINTER. FAINTED UPON A POIITE LIVRE.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat: All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...toil, Up and down in ceaseless moil : Happy if their truck be found Never on forbidden ground ; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous sands of... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat: All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be...the mills of toil, Up and down in ceaseless moil: 1856. Happy if their track be found Never on forbidden ground; Happy if they sink not in Quick and... | |
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