 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 652 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... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 642 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... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 638 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. § 81. Admetus and Alcestis.1 — Admetus... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - 1893 - 248 pages
...some chords, and drew Music that made men's bosoms swell Tearless, or brimmed their eyes with dew. 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 - 1895 - 574 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...in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low1. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw; And yet, unwittingly, in truth.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 528 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 - 1896 - 108 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 - 1896 - 530 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 months was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1897 - 580 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 rongh In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shirtless youth, In whom no good they saw... | |
 | 1898 - 264 pages
...Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. 218 .CHOICE LITERATURE 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... | |
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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. 
