I was rich in flowers and trees, 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 Howe Readers - Page 223by Will David Howe, Myron Thomas Pritchard, Elizabeth Virginia Brown - 1909Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Crowding years in one brief moon, WliL-n all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for, 1 was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plietl the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ;... | |
| 1897 - 404 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy! " О for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw; Me, their master,...brook for my delight Through the day and through the night. Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
| John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...joy. Blessings on the barefoot boy ! O.for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master,...brook for my delight, Through the day and through the night ; Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall ; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy ! O, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master,...brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall ; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy ! O, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master,...brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall ; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 276 pages
...Blessings on the barefoot boy ! 3. O, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master,...brook for my delight Through the day, and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall ; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
| Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 pages
...joy, Blessings on the barefoot boy! 0, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master,...brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy ! O, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master,...brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall ; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
| 1853 - 322 pages
...saw, ''e, their masler, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming hirds and honey bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted...brook for my delight Through the day, and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall ; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel... | |
| Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1893 - 564 pages
...interpretations put upon the following: "Oh, for boyhood's time of June Crowding years in one brief noon. When all things I heard or saw Me, their master, waited for." Were the thought put into the prose order, no difficulty whatever would be experienced; but inversions,... | |
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