| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pàgines
...the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield : Her apron dy'd in grain, as blue, I trowe, As is the hare-bell that adorns the field : And in...does wield Tway birchen sprays ; with anxious fear entwin'd, With dark distrust, and sad repentance fill'd ; And stedfast hate, and sharp affliction join'd,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pàgines
...Where sits the dame, disguis'd in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield : Her apron dy'd in grain, as blue, I trowe, As is the hare-bell that adorns the field : And in her hand, for sceptre,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pàgines
...Where sits the dame, disguis'd in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield : Her apron dy'd in grain, as blue, I trowe, As is the hare-bell that adorns the field : And in her hand, for sceptre,... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1838 - 144 pàgines
...left the parish, and the last hand I grasped was the hard and horny one of the sexton. LETTER VI. " Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right...field ; And in her hand, for sceptre, she does wield Two birchen sprays, with anxious fear entwined." SHEKITONE. THE village dame, or school-mistress, claims... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pàgines
...Where sits the dame, disguised in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right...decency does yield : Her apron dyed in grain, as blue, I trowe, As is the hare-bell that adorns the field : And in her hand, for sceptre, she does wield Tway... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...disguised in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. l Her cap, fiir not so fast ! I have been lame these four years past.'...still keep your eyes ; And sure to see one's loves and dots wield Tint; birchen sprays ; with anxious fear entwined, With dark distrust, and stA repentance... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, F.mblem ot large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few: In this the adonis the field ; And in her hand, for sceptre, she docs wield T way birchen eprays ; with anxious... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pàgines
...Where sits the dame, disguised in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield ; , Her apron dy'd in grain, as blue, I trow, As is the hare-bell that adorns the field : And in her hand, for sceptre,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pàgines
...Where sits the dame, disguis'd in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield : Her apron, dy'd in grain, is blue, I trowe, As is the harebell that adorns the field : And in her hand, for sceptre,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pàgines
...turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency docs ritative, astonished a corrupt age, and the treasury...of Pitt through all the classes of venality. Corr ehe does wield T way birchen sprays ; with anxious fear entwined, With dark distrust, and sad repentance... | |
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