Ballads of New EnglandFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 92 páginas |
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ALFRED FREDERICKS AMY WENTWORTH Ballads bloom blossom blue boat bridal brown Casco Bay CHANGELING child chore-girl COBBLER KEEZAR'S VISION corrt COUNTESS cried dark dead dreams drearily eyes EYTINGE F. O. C. Darley face fair father feathered and carried fire-light flowers fur his horrd futherr'd Gascon golden Goodman Garvin goodwife GRANVILLE PERKINS gray green Hampton River hand hard heart HARRY FENN hear Here's Flud Oirson hillside horn horrd horrt kissed knew lapstone lips Loud laughed maid maiden Martha Mason MARY GARVIN mope Morble'ead mother never o'er Old Floyd Ireson pebbled beach pines PLAYMATE pray prayer Ramoth hill red coals roses blow Saco Saco's sailed shame sighed singing SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE smiling song sorrow stream summer sung sweet sweeter Tarred and feathered TELLING THE BEES to-day Torr'd turkeys wave wild wind WINSLOW HOMER witch women of Marblehead woods WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH young
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Página 27 - Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! 9. Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him ! — why should we?
Página 13 - HERE is the place ; right over the hill Runs the path I took ; You can see the gap in the old wall still, And the stepping-stones in the shallow brook. There is the house, with the gate redbarred, And the poplars tall ; And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, And the white horns tossing above the wall.
Página 26 - Riding there in his sorry trim, Like an Indian idol glum and grim, Scarcely he seemed the sound to hear Of voices shouting, far and near: 'Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o
Página 22 - OF all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead!
Página 17 - MY PLAYMATE. THE pines were dark on Ramoth hill, Their song was soft and low ; The blossoms in the sweet May wind Were falling like the snow. The blossoms drifted at our feet, The orchard birds sang clear ; The sweetest and the saddest day It seemed of all the year. For, more to me than birds or flowers, My playmate left her home, And took with her the laughing spring, The music and the bloom. She kissed the lips of kith and kin, She laid her hand in mine : What more could ask the bashful boy Who...
Página 20 - ... and o'er I sow the spring And reap the autumn ears. She lives where all the golden year Her summer roses blow ; The dusky children of the sun Before her come and go. There haply with her jewelled hands She smooths her silken gown, — No more the homespun lap wherein I shook the walnuts down. The wild grapes wait us by the brook, The brown nuts on the hill, A.nd still the May-day flowers make sweet The woods of Follymill. The lilies blossom in the pond, The bird builds in the tree, The dark pines...
Página 16 - Trembling I listened; the summer sun Had the chill of snow ; For I knew she was telling the bees of one Gone on the journey we all must go ! Then I said to myself, " My Mary weeps For the dead to-day; Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps The fret and pain of his age away.
Página 43 - Her thoughts are not of thee ; She better loves the salted wind, The voices of the sea. Her heart is like an outbound ship That at its anchor swings ; The murmur of the stranded shell Is in the song she sings. She sings, and, smiling, hears her praise, But dreams the while of one Who watches from his sea-blown deck The icebergs in the sun. She questions all the winds that blow, And every fog-wreath dim, And bids the sea-birds flying north Bear messages to him. She speeds them with the thanks of men...
Página 45 - Her home is brave in Jaffrey Street, With stately stairways worn By feet of old Colonial knights And ladies gentle-born. Still green about its ample porch The English ivy twines, Trained back to show in English oak The herald's carven signs. And on her, from the wainscot old, Ancestral faces frown, — •And this has worn the soldier's sword, And that the judge's gown.
Página 15 - Nothing changed but the hives of bees. Before them, under the garden wall, Forward and back, Went drearily singing the chore-girl small, Draping each hive with a shred of black.