Yankee NotionsYale University Press, 1922 - 72 Seiten |
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Seite 36 - Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles ? 36 What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
Seite 48 - The lark was on the wing, The snail was on the thorn; The horn was on the critter, The knob was on the horn.
Seite 51 - ... chairs, like dumb police, Stood round the walls in state; And hanging by a velvet cord, In a vast walnut frame, Was Infant Samuel when the Lord Was calling him by name. If things moved with uncommon verve, At just half-after-eight A pippin cold as ice she'd serve Upon a frosty plate. The family at stroke of nine Would punctually appear And range itself in solemn line For solemn Christian cheer. Yet something drew him thither still (Or so he used to say), And from the parlor's deadly chill He...
Seite 14 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door...
Seite 66 - IF you turn west from the sunken river, And toil through the trees up the mountainside, You will come upon traces of old roads, fashioned By folk that long ago lived and died. Here are the stones of their leaf-choked...
Seite 67 - Along these roads to the springtime sowing With a whistle men strode in days gone by; Now the only music amid the stillness Is a hidden woodbird's grieving cry. There, round the hearths that were home for...