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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, "God has touched him! why should we! "
Littell's Living Age - Page 92
1861
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Favorite Poems

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,...
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Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876

William James Linton - 1878 - 466 pages
...God and the face of the dead ! " — Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart Tarr'd and feather'd and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead !...wife of the skipper lost at sea Said — "God has touch'd him ! — why should we?" Said an old wife mourning her only son — " Cut the rogue's tether...
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America

1878 - 312 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 like a rained-on fowl, Feathered and ruffled in every part,...
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Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V: Iceland ..., Volume 26

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 318 pages
...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! Through the street, on either, side, Up flew windows, doors swung wide ; Sharp-tongued spinsters, old...
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Poems of America, Volumes 1-2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 638 pages
...prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Iresou'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 like a rained-on fowl, Feathered and ruffled in every...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
..." Sink or swim I Brag of your catch of fish again I " And off he sailed through the fog and rain I Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead I Fathoms deep in dark Chaleur That wreck shall lie fore verm ore. Mother and sister, wife and maid,...
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Poetical Works

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
...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 ! " Said old Floyd Ireson,...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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Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 pages
...might not be! What did the winds and the sea-birds say Of the cruel captain who sailed «way ? — Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried ill a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Through the street, on either side, Up Hew windows, doors swung...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 pages
...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 ! " Said old Floyd Ireson,...the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him! — why should we? " SaTd an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether...
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The modern reader and speaker

David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 pages
...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 !" Through the street on either side, up flew windows, doors swung wide ; sharp-tongued spinsters,...
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