 Smooth, square forehead with uprolled hair; Lips that lover has never kissed; Taper fingers and slender wrist ; Hanging sleeves of stiff brocade; So they painted the little maid. On her hand a parrot green Sits unmoving and broods serene. Hold up the...  Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poet, Littérateur, Scientist - Page 20by William Sloane Kennedy - 1883 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...brocade ; So they painted the little maid. On her hand a parrot green Sits unmoving and broods serene. Hold up the canvas full in view, — Look! there's...the lady old, Dorothy's daughter's daughter told. Who the painter was none may tell, — One whose best was not over well ; Hard and dry, it must be... | |
 | 1871 - 798 pages
...up the canvas full in view— Look ! there 'sa rent the light shines through, Dark with a century 's fringe of dust, — That was a Red-Coat's rapier-thrust...tale the lady old Dorothy's daughter's daughter told. Who the painter was none may tell, — One whose best was not over well ; Hard and dry, it must be... | |
 | 1871 - 970 pages
...brocade, — So they painted the little maid. On her hand a parrot green Sits unmoving and broods serene. Hold up the canvas full in view — Look ! there's...tale the lady old Dorothy's daughter's daughter told. Who the painter was none may tell, — One whose best was not over well ; Hard and dry, it must be... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...painted the little maid. On her hand a parrot green Sits unmoving and broods serene; Hold up the c:lnvas full in view — Look! there's a rent the light shines...— That was a Red-Coat's rapier-thrust! Such is the tele the lady old, Dorothy's daughter's daughter, told. Who the painter was none may tell, — One... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...they painted the little maid. On her hand a parrot green Sits unmoving and broods serene; Hold n|) the canvas full in view — Look! there's a rent the...shines through, Dark with a century's fringe of dust, — Who the painter was none may tell,— One whose best was not over well; Hard and dry, it must be... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...they painted the little maid. On her hand a parrot green Sits unmovhig and broods serene; Hold u]> the canvas full in view — Look! there's a rent the...the lady old, Dorothy's daughter's daughter, told. Who the painter was none may tell, — One whose best was not over well ; Hard arid dry, it must be... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...painted the little maid. On her hand a parrot green Sits uimioving and broods serene; Hold up the c;uivas full in view — Look ! there's a rent the light shines...through, Dark with a century's fringe of dust, — That wan a Iled-Coat's rapier-thrust! Such is the tale the lady old, Dorothy's daughter's daughter, told.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 238 pages
...parrot green Sits unmoving and broods serene. Hold up the canvas full in view, — Look I there 'sa rent the light shines through, Dark with a century's...fringe of dust, — That was a Red-Coat's rapier-thrust I Such is the talo tho lady old, Dorothy's daughter's daughter, told. Who tho painter was none may... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...parrot green Sits unmnving and broods serene; Hold up the canvas full in view, — Look ! there 'sa rent the light shines through, Dark with a century's fringe of dust, — That was a Redcoat a rapier-thrust I Kuril is the tale the lady old, Dorothy's daughter's daughter, told. Who... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...green Sits unmoving and broods serene; Hold up the canvas full in view, — •Look ! there 'sa reiit the light shines through, Dark with a century's fringe of dust, — That was a Kcdeoat s rapier-thrust ! Such is the tale the lady old, Dorothy's daughter's daughter, told. Who the... | |
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