 | Lisa Legarde, Dale Northrup - Philosophy - 1995 - 598 pages
...away, wrote his famous poem about a Cambridge blacksmith whose shop was on Brattle Street: "Under the spreading chestnut tree/ The village smithy stands;/...a mighty man is he,/ With large and sinewy hands." The spot the smithy occupied is now taken by the Blacksmith House, a cafe/bakery, just l'/a blocks... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care. 6515 6516 In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. 6517 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' But the... | |
 | April Pflug - Education - 2000 - 82 pages
...the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? Francis Scott Key Brief meaning: 2. Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands;...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. Brief meaning: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and... | |
 | Aldren A Watson - Crafts & Hobbies - 2000 - 194 pages
...Bibliography 1 65 Index 169 The Blacksmith Ironworker and Farrier Prologue 1 Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands: The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. There are few men left who can recall the once-familiar scene that inspired Longfellow to write this... | |
 | Alfred F. Young, Alfred Young - History - 2000 - 286 pages
...ultimately, "Paul Reveres Ride," he sentimentalized craftsmen. He became a master of the romantic glow, as in "The Village Blacksmith": Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands His brow is wet with honest sweat He earns what'er he can And looks the whole world in his face For... | |
 | David E. Bonior - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 276 pages
...stanza from memory, feeling each word and taking the pleasure of each meter and rhyme, he mesmerizes us. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. He continues for all eight verses. Charlie may be dreaming of himself as a young man. We marvel at... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...pound, smith, smithy, blacksmith, goldsmith, locksmith, etc., and the legion oí Smiths. Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands;...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. -Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith (1842) (s)meit: throw; send. The first sense seems to have been... | |
 | John Greenleaf - Medical - 2004 - 201 pages
...ofWellness and Movement Sciences, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico. USA Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands;...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands... He earns w hate'er he cau, And looks the whole world in the lace. For he owes not any man.... | |
 | Mary Melvin Petronella - Architecture - 2004 - 340 pages
...chestnut-tree" of Longfellow's poem "The Village Blacksmith" once stood: Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. Thirty yards west of the marker is a yellow Federal-style house, still affectionately known as the... | |
 | Arline Zatz - Horsemanship - 2004 - 276 pages
...several horses, have a 40 percent win average, and it's a great feeling." Does this rhyme sound familiar: "The smith a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy...muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands"? That's the blacksmith, better known today as the farrier, another vital link in your horse's well-being.... | |
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The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. 
