She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot. And she heard the... Putnam's Monthly - Page 291857Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...cloverblooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain : " Ah, that I were free again! "Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked...her door. But care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on h'eart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| American periodicals - 1855 - 846 pages
...яплтп ! 1 Ah, that I were free agai " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay.* She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many...her door. But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 408 pages
...that I were free again I " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay I M She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children...her door. But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain ; "Ah, that I were free again! " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked...her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| 1858 - 882 pages
...wayside well instead ; And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover-blooms. She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children...her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...with a secret pain : " Ah, that I were free again I " Free as when I rode that day, Where the harefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. Bnt care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain : "Ah, that I were frce again! " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded si man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...clover-blooms. And the proud man sigh'd, with a secret pains "Ah, that I were free again ! " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unleam'd and poor, And many children play'd round her door. But care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain • "Ah, that I were free again ! " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked...her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain : " Ah, that I were free again ! " Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked...her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
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