Then, as he opened the door, he beheld the form of the maiden Seated beside her wheel, and the carded wool like a snow-drift Piled at her knee, her white hands feeding the ravenous spindle, While with her foot on the treadle she guided the wheel in its... Lays of the Pilgrim Fathers - Página 48por Benjamin Scott - 1861 - 71 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1858 - 456 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 244 páginas
...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 psalmbook...from whose pages she sang the old Puritan anthem, - »-> U,_ ^^ , *. £f,tf, ,. Hk i<(^X4 IT' .-/ [She, the Puritan girl, in the solitude of the forest,... | |
| 1859 - 694 páginas
...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... | |
| 1859 - 690 páginas
...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... | |
| 1859 - 534 páginas
...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 - 136 páginas
...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 - 1860 - 448 páginas
...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... | |
| Benjamin Scott - 1861 - 106 páginas
...the wheel in its motion. * Priscilla Hullins, afterwards the wife of John .Video, above alluded to. PRISCILLA, THE PILGRIM MAIDEN. Open wide on her lap...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 páginas
...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...old Puritan anthem. She, the Puritan girl, in the solitnde of the forest, Making the humble house and the modest apparel of home-spun Beautiful with... | |
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