Sweetly along the Salem road Bloom of orchard and lilac showed. Little the wicked skipper knew Of the fields so green and the sky so blue. Poetical Works - Page 275by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878Full view - About this book
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1893 - 482 pages
...tongue, Pushed and pulled up the rocky lane, Shouting and singing the shrill refrain: ' Here 's Flnd Oirson, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble'ead! ' " Such a subject as that stirred the Yankee Quaker to the depths. A human being, deaf to the still... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...Sharp-tongued spinsters, old wives gray, Treble lent the fish-horns' bray. Sea-worn grand^ires, cripple bound, Hulks of old sailors, run aground, Shook head and...and cane, And cracked with curses the hoarse refrain : " Here 's Flud Oirson, for his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futher'd, an' corr'd in a corrt, By the women... | |
| Literature - 1861 - 674 pages
...windows, doors swung wide ; Sharp-tongued spinsters, old wives gray, Lent a treble to the fish-horn's bray. Sea-worn grandsires, cripple-bound. Hulks of old sailors run aground, Shook head and fist, shook hat and cane, And cracked with curses the hoarse refrain ; ' Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...Indian idol glum and grim, Scarcely he seemed the sound to hear Of voices shouting far and near : " Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an'...futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble'ead ! " " Hear me, neighbors ! " at last he cried, — " What to me is this noisy ride ? What is the shame... | |
| John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...flew windows, doors swung wide; Sharp-tongued spinsters, old wives gray, Treble lent the fish-horn's bray. Sea-worn grandsires, cripple-bound, Hulks of...futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble'ead !" " Hear me, neighbors !" at last he cried,— " What to me is this noisy ride? What is the shame... | |
| John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...flew windows, doors swung wide; Sharp-tongued spinsters, old wives gray, Treble lent the fish-horn's bray. Sea-worn grandsires, cripple-bound, Hulks of...the hoarse refrain : '' Here's Flud Oirson, fur his liorrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an" corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble'ead 1" " Hear me, neighbors... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Treble lent the fish-horn's bray. Sea- worn grandsires, cripple-bound, Hulks of old sailors run...cracked with curses the hoarse refrain : " Here's Flud Oirsori, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble'ead... | |
| Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...Sharp-tongued spinsters, old wives gray, Treble lent the fish-horns' bray. Sea-worn grandsires, cripple bound, Hulks of old sailors, run aground, Shook head and...cracked with curses the hoarse refrain : " Here's Find Oirson, for his horrd hoort, Torr'd an' futher'd, an' corr'd in a corrt, By the women o' Morble'ead... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1870 - 106 pages
...flew windows, doors swung wide ; Sharp-tongued spinsters, old wives gray, Treble lent the fish-horn's bray. Sea-worn grandsires, cripple-bound, Hulks of...and cane. And cracked with curses the hoarse refrain : " Here 's Flud Dirson, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1871 - 506 pages
...horrd horrt. Torr'd an' fntherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morhle'ead ! " Sweetly alone the Salem road Bloom of orchard and lilac showed....skipper knew Of the fields so green and the sky so hloe. Riding there in his sorry trim, Like an Indian idol glom and grim, Scarcely he seemed the sonnd... | |
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