 Oft, when the wine in his glass was red, He longed for the wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain • "Ah, that I were free again ! " Free...  J.M. Bellew's Readings from American Authors - Page 261879 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sigh'd, with a secret pain: "Ah, that I were free again 1 " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlcarn'd and poor. And many children play'd round her door. But care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain,... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...longed for the way-side well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms. To dream of meadows and clover blooms. And the proud man sighed, with...maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. « But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...wayside well instead; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain ; " Ah,...maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...longed for the wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover blooms ; And the proud man sighed with...when I rode that day "Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay." 11. She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain "Ah,...maiden raked her hay. She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain ; " Ah,...maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain ' "Ah,...maiden raked her hay.* She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed with secret pain, " Ah, that I were free again! " Free...maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed with secret pain, " Ah, that I were free again 1 " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played rouud her door. But care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...longed for the wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover blooms. And the proud man sighed, with...maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their... | |
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