 Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only  Putnam's Monthly - Page 291857Full view - About this book
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 560 pages
...a rider draw his rein. And, gazing down with 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 Igm who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw his rein, And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretch'd away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinnet turn'd, The tallow candle an astral... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw his rein, And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretch'd away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinnet turn'd, The tallow candle an astral... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw his rein : And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her...candle an astral burned, And for him who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was... | |
 | American poetry - 1865 - 564 pages
...shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw his rein, And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her...candle an astral burned ; And for him who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw his rein, And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretch'd away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinnet turn'd, The tallow candle an astral... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...the roadside, through the wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw his rein. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched away...candle an astral burned, And for him who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her Bide she saw, And joy was... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...a rider draw his rein : And, gazing down with 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 chimney lug, Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...rider draw his rein, And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. 12. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinet ' turned, The tallow candle an astral ' burned ; And for him who sat by the chimney lug, Dozing... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...shade of the apple-tree again She saw a rider draw his rein. And, gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. Sometimes her...spinnet turned, The tallow candle an astral burned, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of... | |
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