 | Maritime provinces - 1875 - 412 pages
...the winda and the sea-birda uy Of the cruel captain who sailed away ? — Old Floyd Ireaon, for hia hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead." When well within the bay the steamer assumes a course nearly SW, leaving Miscou and Shippigan Islands... | |
 | Alfred Barron - 1875 - 336 pages
...intensified when some noble prisoner is borne in a cart to his place of death. Old Floyd Ireson "was tarred and feathered and carried in a cart" 'by the women of Marblehead. 1 have to confess that I often feel a very positive kindling of the imagination, when a brave man.... | |
 | Alfred Barron - 1875 - 344 pages
...intensified when some noble prisoner is borne in a cart to his place of death. Old Floyd Ireson " was tarred and feathered and carried in a cart" by the women of Marblehead. 1 have to confess that I often feel a very positive kindling of the imagination, when a brave man and... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 484 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 G6d and the face of the dead!" Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...cut him loose, And gave him a cloak to hide him in, And left him alone with his shame and sin. Poor Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of MarbleheadI THE DRUMMER'S BRIDE. Hollow-eyed and pale, at the window of a jail, Through her soft, disheveled... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1881 - 310 pages
...Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Iresou's, out from Marblehead ! Old Floyd Iresou, 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 like a rained-on fowl, Feathered and ruffled in every... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 316 pages
...within ? 100 TELLING THE BEES. " Went drearily singing the chore-girl small." Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck. And hear a cry from a reeling deck ! Hate me and curse me, — 1 only dread The hand of God and the face of the dead ! " Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart,... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...horror that lives within ? AVaking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling dwk ! Hate me and curse me, — I only dread The hand of God and the fece of the dead ! " Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart Tarred and feathered and carried in... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1877 - 104 pages
...answered, ' Sink or swim ! Brag of your catch of fish again ! " And off he sailed through the fog and rain! Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Fathoms deep in dark Chaleur That wreck shall lie forevermore. Mother and sister, wife and maid,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 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 !...for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried IB a cart By the women of Marblehead I Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched... | |
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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... 
