 They knew not how he learned at all, For idly, hour by hour, He sat and watched the dead leaves fall, Or mused upon a common flower.  Poems - Page 109by James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Baldwin, Ida Catherine Bender, Ida C. Bender - Readers - 1911 - 272 pages
...sweet half -sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. 41 His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...their law. They knew not how he learned at all, For idly, hour by hour, He sat and watched the dead leaves fall, Or mused upon a common flower. It seemed... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Mythology, Classical - 1911 - 690 pages
...the cups of wine : And so, well pleased with being soothed Into a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. f Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth,... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - Readers - 1912 - 400 pages
...the cups of wine: And so, well pleased with being soothed Into a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er...their law. They knew not how he learned at all, For idly, hour by hour, He sat and watched the dead leaves fall, Or mused upon a common flower. It seemed... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 332 pages
...kingly beard he smoothed, And so, well pleased with being soothed And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough, His words were simple words enough, In his seemed musical and low. In whom no good they saw; And yet,... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy, Lora M. Dexheimer - English language - 1913 - 352 pages
...the cups of wine : And so, well pleased with being soothed Into a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er...their law. They knew not how he learned at all, For idly, hour by hour, He sat and watched the dead leaves fall, Or mused upon a common flower. It seemed... | |
 | Howard Roscoe Driggs - 1914 - 464 pages
...the cups of wine. And so, well pleased with being soothed Into a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed. And made him viceroy o'er...their law. They knew not how he learned at all, For idly, hour by hour, He sat and watched the dead leaves fall, Or mused upon a common flower. It seemed... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - Readers - 1914 - 394 pages
...the cups of wine : And so, well-pleased with being soothed Into a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed And made him viceroy o'er...in truth, They made his careless words their law. *Used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, the authorized publishers, Hough ton Mifflin... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...well pleased with being soothed Into a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, IS And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. 20 Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth,... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 360 pages
...well pleased with being soothed Into a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, 1 . And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. 2 Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...and of the spirit one. Sonnet xxxiv. (Ed. 1844). Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. His words were simple words enough And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Shepherd of King Admetus. All thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul.... | |
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