 Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the...  The Whittier Birthday Book - Page 176by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1897 - 404 pages
...played. Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and...Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides! Still as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too; All the world I sawor knew Seemed a complex Chinese... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and...Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides ! Still, as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too ; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 pages
...played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and...Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides ! Still, as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and...Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides ! Still, as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too ; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 276 pages
...Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day,...Mine on bending orchard trees Apples of Hesperides ! Still as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches, too ; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and...Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides ! Still, as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too ; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex... | |
 | 1853 - 322 pages
...Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day,...slopes beyond, Mine on bending orchard trees Apples of Hes perides ! Still as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too ; All the world I saw or knew Seemed... | |
 | 1872 - 818 pages
...house, under a large oak tree and close to the pretty little murmuring brook of the " Barefoot Boy." " Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and...the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall." We lay on the grass and listened to its pleasant voice, and tried to imagine the poet, a rosy-cheeked,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and...Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides ! 4 Still as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too ; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex5... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; s n2 ! Still as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too ; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex... | |
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