 Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official, The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's...  Initial Studies in American Letters - Page 152by Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the sumachs grow. And blackberry-vines are running. Within, the master's desk Is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved Initial; The charcoal frescoes on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1876 - 530 pages
...description of the schoolhouse of his early clays, — "Within, the master's desk ie seen, Deep-scarred with raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial," etc. Such was the acknowledged condition of their buildings up to a very recent period. In 1868, '69... | |
 | 1869 - 376 pages
...choice. Rev. CD Nable. IN SCHOOL-DAYS. Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning j Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping Hoor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial... | |
 | 1872 - 818 pages
...old and brown. Here was kept the " ragged winter school " which Whittier attended in his boyhood. " Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged...by raps official, The warping floor, the battered teats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; "The charcoal frescoes on its wall ; Its door's worn sill,... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1870 - 884 pages
...answered Stephen, as if he knew human nature, and had got used himself to most things. IN SCHOOL-DAYS. STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged...vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial... | |
 | 1870 - 522 pages
...trace all down the centuries as we progress in our fascinating work ! ARTHUR GILMAN. IN SCHOOL DA VS. STILL sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar...vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; , The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 120 pages
...answered, with a wise smile, to himself: " I saw the angel where they see a man." IN SCHOOL-DAYS. OTILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged -beggar...vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 292 pages
...the sumachs grow And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal frescoes on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 120 pages
...the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal frescos on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to... | |
 | 1884 - 794 pages
...again, and to bear witness that it was made happy by what I answered. IN SCHOOL DATS.— JG WHTTTIKR. STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged...vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial... | |
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