 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 921861Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 100 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 OB By the women of Marblehead ! Through the street, on either side, Up flew windows, doors swung... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...pretend to. '* gree, prize. 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,... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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 Marblehead! MR. HOSEA BIGLOW TO THE EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. From THE BIGLOW PAPERS. James Russell Lowell.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1895 - 584 pages
...him I»UM-, And gave him a clink to hide him in. And left him alone with his sham« ar. • sin. Poor Floyd Ireson, for his hard he-art. Tarred and feathered and carried in i cart By the women of Marblebead I THE SYCAMORES Hnjrh Tmllant wm the first Irish Haverhill, Мам.... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...that might not be 1 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 602 pages
...Islam's 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.... | |
 | 1908 - 434 pages
...Here is " Skipper Ireson's Ride," with its quaint refrain of : — • " Old Floyd Ireson, for hie hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead." Here is "Cobbler Keezer," with his mystic lapstone, through which he looks into futurity for a hundred... | |
 | 1920 - 1002 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. Looked... | |
 | Robert Penn Warren - 1971 - 222 pages
...that 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... | |
 | Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 pages
...Islam's 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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