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
| Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 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 child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...pain, "Ah, that I were free again ! " 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...All, that I were free again ! ' ' Free as when I rode that day Where the barefoot maiden raked the re it met the billow blue He caught within his crimson...sparkling dew, — Joy to thee, fay ! thy task is Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| American poetry - 1871 - 210 pages
..." All, that I were free again ! " Free as when I rode that day Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. Hut care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...clover-blooms. 38. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain ; " Ah ! that I were free again ! 39. " Free as when I rode that day, "Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." 40. She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. 41. And oft, when... | |
| H. R. Schermerhorn - Elocution - 1871 - 124 pages
...clover-blooms. 38. And the proud man sigh'd, with a secret pain "Ah, that I were free again ! 39. "Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay.'' ELOCUTION. 41. But care, and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. 42.... | |
| Readers - 1872 - 514 pages
...and clover-blooms. And the proud man sighed with 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 summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 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... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...clover blooms. And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain : "Ah, that I were free again ! "Free as ame— nor yet beside the rill, Nor Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in... | |
| Star reciter - 1873 - 330 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 child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and braiu. And oft when the summer sun shone hot ©n the new-mowu hay in... | |
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