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" Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " Grod has touched him ! why should we ? " Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut... "
The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 226
by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 395 pages
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Notes and Queries

1901 - 578 pages
...533, Aldine ed.) alludes to a man thus put to shame for lechery. Whittier describee a sea captain :— Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart Tarred and feathered,...and carried in a cart, By the women of Marblehead. CHAS. P. PHINN. Watford. SWEENY TODD (9 th S. vii. 508; viii. 131,168). —The suggestion that the...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 104

1901 - 688 pages
...Aldine ed.) alludes to a man thus put to shame for lechery. Whittier describes a sea captain : — Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart Tarred and feathered,...and carried in a cart, By the women of Marblehead. CHAS. P. PHINN. Watford. SWEENY TODD (9th S. vii. 508; viii. 131, 168). — The suggestion that the...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 33

1874 - 804 pages
...and Dillingham would certainly meat the fate of old Floyd Ireson, who, as you remember, was ' tarred and feathered and carried in a cart by the women of Marblehead ' ! " " Very well, then," cried Prue, gayly, " I 'll ride Kate instead of Jenny. Jenny pokes along...
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The Free Speaker: A New Collection of Pieces for Declamation, Original as ...

William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 pages
...Islam's prophet on Al-Borak, . — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's out of Marblehead ! Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered, and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead J Body of turkey, head of owl, Wings a-droop, like a rained-on fowl, Feathered and ruffled in every...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 71

1861 - 674 pages
...! ' at last he cried, — ' What to me is this noisy ride ? What is the shame that clothes the skin To the nameless horror that lives within ? Waking...Hate me and curse me, — I only dread The hand of (iod and the face of the Dead.' Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier ...

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...that might not be ! What did the winds and the sea-birds say Of the cruel captain who sailed away ?— Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead 1 Treble lent the fish-horn's bray. Sea-worn grandsires, cripple-bound, Hulks of old sailors run aground,...
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Mark Rowland: A Tale of the Sea

John Sherburne Sleeper - 1867 - 224 pages
...after him, or sing in rude chorus, — " ' There goes Floyd Ireson, who, for his hard heart, Was tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead.' " s " And served him right," said Ned. " 'Tis a pity, though, that they had not lynched him at once,...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Complete in Two Volumes, Volume 2

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead ! Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Body of turkey, head of owl, Wings a-droop liked a rained-on fowl, Feathered and ruffled in every...
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Common School Readings: Containing New Selections in Prose and Poetry for ...

John Swett - 1867 - 252 pages
...horror that lives within ? Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck 1 Hate me and curse me, — I only dread The hand of God and the face of the dead I" / Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said,-" God has touched him 1 — why should we?" Said...
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Common School Readings: Containing New Selections in Prose and Poetry for ...

John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...is the shame that clothes the skin To the nameless horror that lives within ? Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck ! Hate me and curse me,—I only dread The hand of God and the face of the dead !" Then the wife of the skipper lost at...
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