 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
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 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." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 490 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms To dreain 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. up and faded by my side. In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay.* She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...closed his eyes on his garnish'd rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. And the proud man sigh'd, otion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, e rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearn 'd and poor, And... | |
 | Nat Gould, Nathaniel Gould - 1901 - 316 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 was free again ! " Free as when I rode that day, where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1902 - 488 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 ! " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1903 - 600 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." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, '... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1905 - 872 pages
...wayside well instead; And closed bis 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." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 610 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... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 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." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many... | |
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