 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | 1876 - 294 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 276 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, They knew not how he learned at all, For idly, hour by hour,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...gone, And e'en his memory dim, Earth seemed more sweet to live upon, More full of love, because of him. And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their first-born brother as a god. THE TOKEN. IT is a mere wild rosebud, Quite... | |
 | Alicia Amy Leith - 1877 - 292 pages
...light obscuring, That light dissolved the mist of tears, And proved the more enduring. -john Afoultrie. HIS words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough, In his seemed musical and low. June llth. WHILE amidst the turmoil thou dost live, Still shalt thou win the game, and unto thee Defeat... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly Ix-ardhe smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That wiiat in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth,... | |
 | 1878 - 300 pages
...a, sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw; And yet unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Tbree times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other moutbs was rough In hie seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In hie seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet,... | |
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His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. 
