 And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, And the white horns tossing above the walL There are the beehives ranged in the sun ; And down by the brink Of the brook are her poor flowers, weed-o'errun, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink.  The Whittier Birthday Book - Page 170by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1916 - 374 pages
...blows and the same sun And the same brook sings of a year ago. There's the same sweet-clover smell in the breeze. And the June sun warm Tangles his wings...in the trees. Setting, as then, over Fernside farm. I mind me how, with a lover's care. From my Sunday coat I brushed off the burrs and smoothed my And... | |
 | 1861 - 588 pages
...glows, And the same brook sings of a year ago. There's the same sweet clover -smell in the bréete ; And the June sun warm Tangles his wings of fire in the trees, Setting, as then, over Fernside farm. I mind me how with a lover's care From my Sunday coat I brushed off the burs, and smoothed my hair,... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...down by the brink Of the brook are her poor flowers, weed-o'er-run, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. A year has gone as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow...sun glows, And the same brook sings of a year ago. * It was formerly the custom, on the death of a member of any family in the rural districts of New... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...down by the brink Of the brook are her poor flowers, weed-o'errun, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. A year has gone, as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow;...sun glows, And the same brook sings of a year ago. There's the same sweet clover-smell in the breeze ; And the June sun warm Tangles his wings of fire... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...down by the brink j3f the brook are her poor flowers, weed-o'errun, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. A year has gone, as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow...sun glows, And the same brook sings of a year ago. There's the same sweet clover-smell in the breeze *, And the June sun warm Tangles his wings of fire... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1870 - 106 pages
...by the brink Of the brook are her poor flowers, weed-o'errun, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. 13 A year has gone, as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow...in the trees, Setting, as then, over Fernside farm. I mind me how with a lover's care From my Sunday coat I brushed off the burrs, and smoothed my hair,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 506 pages
...the hrink Of the hrook are her poor flowers, weedo'errnn, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. A vear has gone, as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow ; And the same rose hlows, and the same snn glows, And the same hrook sings of a year There 's the same sweet clover-smell... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...down by the brink Of the brook are her poor flowers, weed. o'errun, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. A year has gone, as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow...in the trees, Setting, as then, over Fernside farm. I mind me how with a lover's care From my Sunday coat I brushed off the burrs, and smooth /I my hair,... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...down by the brink Of the brook are her poor flowers, weed-o'errun, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. A year has gone, as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow...sun glows, And the same brook sings, of a year ago. There's the same sweet clover-smell in the breeze ; And the June sun warm Tangles his wings of fire... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...down by the brink Of the brook are her poor flowers, weed-o'errun, Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink. A year has gone, as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow...sun glows, And the same brook sings of a year ago. There's the same sweet clover-smell in the breeze ; And the June sun warm Tangles his wings of fire... | |
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