 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...  Summer Songs - Page 91by Henry Hartshorne - 1865 - 100 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows aud clover-blooms. And tho proud man sighed, with a secret pain : "Ah, that I were free again! " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maidcu raked her hav." She wedded a man unlearned aud poor, Aud many... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1881 - 402 pages
...1n the1r innocent surprise. Oft, when the wine in his glass was red, He longed for the wayside well instead ; And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain ; "Ah, that I were free again I "Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and cloverblooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain, " Ah, that I were free again I " Free as when I rode that day, Where the harefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 812 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, that I were free again ! "Free as when I rode that day Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover blooms; 32 And the proud man sighed with a secret pain, — " Ah, that I were free again ! ' Free as when I rode that day Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. mother.' '•And with that I could not help but langh, And I laughed out loud and free ; And rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hav." Sue wedded a man unlcarued and poor, And many... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Recitations, American - 1881 - 438 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, that I were free again ! " Free as when I rode that day Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 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, that I were free again ! " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay.v She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on the 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 as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | Albert Ellery Berg - Actors - 1884 - 826 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, that I were free again ! " Free as when I rode that day Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
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