 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall...wheel, shall sing, In russet gown and apron blue. The village church among the trees, Where first our marriage vows were given; With merry peals shall swell... | |
 | Easy rhymes - Children's poetry, English - 1864 - 176 pages
...my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-builfc nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal — a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch...her wheel shall sing, In russet gown and apron blue. EOOEES. o WHAT IS THAT, MOTHER ? WHAT is that, Mother ? The lark, my child ; The morn has but just... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1864 - 142 pages
...clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest; Around tny ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that...wheel, shall sing In russet gown and apron blue. The village church among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were given, With merry peals shall swell... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall...drinks the dew ; And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing In russet-gown and apron blue. The village-church among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivy'd porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew; And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing In russet-gown and apron blue. 130 li THE SAILOR. 1786. THE Sailor sighs as sinks his native shore, As... | |
 | Readers - 1908 - 446 pages
...my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall...the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. The Team : A West Point Foot-Ball Story* BY CAPTAIN LLOYD BUCHANAN. From " Lippincott's Monthly Magazine,"... | |
 | English poetry - 1908 - 464 pages
...beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall...drinks the dew; And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing In russet-gown and apron blue. 5 The village-church among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were... | |
 | 1908 - 376 pages
...my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall...drinks the dew ; And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing In russet-gown and apron blue. The village-church among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1908 - 476 pages
...fragrant flower that drinks the dew; And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing In russet-gown and apron blue. 5 The village-church among the trees, Where first our...swell the breeze And point with taper spire to Heaven. S. Rogers ODE TO EVENING If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 542 pages
...clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest Around my ivy'd porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks...the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. 550 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY SLEEP on, and dream of Heaven awhileTho" shut so close thy laughing eyes, Thy... | |
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MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch,... 
