The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 |
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... hard sun - browned hands To scrape acquaintance with his lands ; Whatever thing he had to do He did , and made it pay him , too ; He sold his waste stone by the pound , His drains made water - wheels spin round , His ice in summer ...
... hard sun - browned hands To scrape acquaintance with his lands ; Whatever thing he had to do He did , and made it pay him , too ; He sold his waste stone by the pound , His drains made water - wheels spin round , His ice in summer ...
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... hard times puts a new ache into every one of them . Thrift was the first lesson in their horn - book , pointed out , letter after letter , by the lean finger of the hard schoolmistress , Necessity . Neither were those plump , rosy ...
... hard times puts a new ache into every one of them . Thrift was the first lesson in their horn - book , pointed out , letter after letter , by the lean finger of the hard schoolmistress , Necessity . Neither were those plump , rosy ...
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... ( hard to exem- plify otherwise than orally ) . The following passage in Shakespeare he would recite thus : ― " Neow is the winta uv eour discontent Med glorious summa by this sun o ' Yock , An ' all the cleouds thet leowered upun eour ...
... ( hard to exem- plify otherwise than orally ) . The following passage in Shakespeare he would recite thus : ― " Neow is the winta uv eour discontent Med glorious summa by this sun o ' Yock , An ' all the cleouds thet leowered upun eour ...
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... hard to swaller , It comes so nateral to think about a hempen collar ; It's glory , but , in spite o ' all my tryin ' to git callous , ― I feel a kind o ' in a cart , aridin ' to the gallus . But wen it comes to bein ' killed , — I tell ...
... hard to swaller , It comes so nateral to think about a hempen collar ; It's glory , but , in spite o ' all my tryin ' to git callous , ― I feel a kind o ' in a cart , aridin ' to the gallus . But wen it comes to bein ' killed , — I tell ...
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... hard thing to say where the graceful gentleness of the lamb merges in down- right sheepishness . We may conclude with worthy and wise Dr. Fuller , that " one may be a lamb in private wrongs , but in hearing general affronts to goodness ...
... hard thing to say where the graceful gentleness of the lamb merges in down- right sheepishness . We may conclude with worthy and wise Dr. Fuller , that " one may be a lamb in private wrongs , but in hearing general affronts to goodness ...
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Seite 245 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Seite 211 - GOD makes sech nights, all white an' still Fur 'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten. Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder. An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender.
Seite 10 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An...
Seite 67 - s ben true to one party, — an' thet is himself ; — So John P. Robinson he Sez he shall vote fer Gineral C. Gineral C. he goes in fer the war ; He don't vally principle more 'n an old cud ; Wut did God make us raytional creeturs fer, But glory an' gunpowder, plunder an
Seite 101 - O' prayin' an' convartin' ; The bread comes back in many days, An' buttered, tu, fer sartin ; I mean in preyin' till one busts On wut the party chooses, An' in convartin' public trusts To very privit uses.
Seite 110 - I stan' upon the Constitution, Ez preudunt statesmun say, who 've planned A way to git the most profusion 0' chances ez to -ware they '11 stand. Ez fer the war, I go agin it, — I mean to say I kind o' du, — Thet is, I mean thet, bein...
Seite 46 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Seite 214 - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun
Seite 211 - ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Seite 213 - A-raspin' on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the sekle, His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle.