 The Judge looked back as he climbed the hill, And saw Maud Muller standing still. "A form more fair, a face more sweet, Ne'er hath it been my lot to meet. "And her modest answer and graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair. " Would she were...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 281857Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...answer and graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair. " Would she were mine, and I to-day, Like her, a harvester of hay. " No doubtful balance...and quiet, and loving words." But he thought of his sister, proud and cold, And his mother, vain of her rank and gold. So, closing his heart, the Judge... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...been my lot to meet. " And her modest answer and graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair. "No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs, Nor weary...loving words." But he thought of his sisters proud and colcl, And his mother vain of her rank and gold. So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, And Maud... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 316 pages
...answer and graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair. " Would she were mine, and I to-day, Like her, a harvester of hay : " No doubtful balance...with endless tongues, " But low of cattle and song of I nn Is. And health and quiet and loving words.'' But he thought of his sisters proud and cold, And... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers - 1876 - 484 pages
...answer and graceful air, Show her wise and good as she is fair. Would she were mine, and I to-day, Like her, a harvester of hay : No doubtful balance of rights and wr6ngs, Nor weary lawyers with endless tongues, But low of cattle and song of birds, / And health,... | |
 | Annie Thomas - 1877 - 392 pages
...faded system ; I shall have nothing to disturb me — " No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs ; No weary lawyers with endless tongues ; But low of cattle,...of birds, And health, and quiet, and loving words." I rose up in the morning, feeling rejuvenated by the prospect. It would be such effortless enjoyment.... | |
 | Leon Dande - Slavery - 1877 - 864 pages
...mightier than all." He neither could nor would, close his heart against his dark " Maud Muller." " He thought of his sisters, proud and cold ; And his mother, vain of her rank and gold." But he was one to tear away, like spider's webs, all the "might have beens " from his life. There was... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1878 - 422 pages
...answer and graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair. " Would she were mine, and I to-day, Like her, a harvester of hay : " No doubtful balance...and cold, And his mother, vain of her rank and gold. But the lawyers smiled that afternoon, When he hummed in court an old love-tune ; And the young girl... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1878 - 708 pages
...answer and graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair. " Would she were mine, and I to-day, Like her, a harvester of hay : " No doubtful balance...and wrongs, Nor weary lawyers with endless tongues, "lint low of cattle and song of birds, And health and quiet and loving words." But he thought of his... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...modest answer and graceful air, Show her wise and good as she is fair. Would she were mine, and I to-day Like her a harvester of hay : No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs, And weary lawyers with endless tongues, But low of cattle and song of birds, And health of quiet and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...wise and good as she is fair. "Would she were mine, and I to-day, Like her, a harvester of hay : 41 No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs, ^ Nor weary lawyers with endless tongues, bees; But he thought of his sisters proud and cold. And his mother vain of her rank and gold. So, closing... | |
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