 Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn psalm-book of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together, Rough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard, Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses.  Plymouth Church Records, 1620-1859 - Page xxxiiiby Plymouth (Mass.). First Church - 1920Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 456 pages
...her psalm-book on her lap — a Dutch-printed volume : " the words and the music together Eough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard,...Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses." She makes a very graceful picture ; but if the outward sign was present, we are afraid that the inward... | |
 | 1858 - 890 pages
...better, for she tells him that she was thinking of him as she sat singing and spinning, — whilst " Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn Psalm-book of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam ;" And he is, as might be expected in him, " Awkward and dumb with delight, that a tlioughi. of him... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 694 pages
...her foot on the treadle she guided the wheel in its motion. Open wide on her lap, lay the well worn psalm-book of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the...Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses." Having thus noticed the subject-matter of the poem, we proceed now to its meter ; this we think as... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 636 pages
...her font on the treadle she guided the wheel in its motion. Open wide on her lap lay the well worn psalm-book of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the...Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses. Such was the book from whose pages she sang the old Puritan anthem, She, the Puritan girl, in the solitude... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 242 pages
...she guided the wheel in its motion. Open wide on her lap lay the -well-worn psalmbook of Aiusworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together,...Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses. Such was the book from whose pages she sang the old Puritan anthem, She, the Puritan girl, in the solitude... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 690 pages
...the wheel in its motion. Open wide on her lap, lav the well worn psalm-book of Ainsworth. Printed iu Amsterdam, the words and the music together, Rough-hewn,...Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses." Having thus noticed the subject-matter of the poem, we proceed now to its meter; this we think as much... | |
 | Universalism - 1859 - 534 pages
...her lap lay the well worn psalm book of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the пншс together, Rough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in...Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses." He entered the house, and the einging and the wheel stopped, and she rose to meet him saying, " I knew... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...well-worn psalm-hook of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together, Bough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard,...Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses. Such was the book from whose pages she sang the old Puritan anthem, She, the Puritan girl, in the solitude... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...feeding the ravenous spindle, While with her foot on the treadle she guided the wheel in its motion. Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn psalm-book...Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together, Hough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard, Darkened and overhung by the running... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...feeding the ravenous spindle. While with her foot on the treadle she guided the wheel in its motion. Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn psalm-book...Rough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churehyard. Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses. Such WHS the book from whose pages... | |
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