BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty... Development of English Literature and Language - Page 393by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883Full view - About this book
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 464 pages
...gone before ! * THE BAREFOOT BOY. BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan 1 With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled...thy torn brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thae joy, — I was once a barefoot boy I Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.... | |
| 1902 - 724 pages
...little man, Barefoot boy with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons. And thy merry-whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries...heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! " But the climax is reached when the teacher, probably feeling it necessary for him to take a hand,... | |
| Wilbur Fisk Crafts - 1880 - 168 pages
...delicate plate of the child-mind. In making the well-known chromo of Whittier's " Barefoot Boy/'— " Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy with cheek...turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes," etc., — there is first the sketch on the stone made of soap and lamp-black ; then the foundation... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...at the girls with the beautiful curls, And ogled them over his sleeve. ANONYMOUS. THE BAREFOOT BOY. smallest of talk, — Somehow, Joe, I thought of "...dance that we had on " The Fork ; " Of Harrison's bar ; Witli thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...alone is Lord and God! **THB BAREFOOT BOY. Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheeks of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry...art — the grown-up man Only is republican. Let the million-dollared ride ! Barefoot, trudging at his side, Thou hast more than he can buy, In the reach... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 616 pages
...on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek rf tan ! With ihy turned-up pantaloons, And thy mem- whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed...give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince ihou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican. Let the million-dnllared ride ! Barefoot, trudging... | |
| 1902 - 684 pages
...little man, Barefoot boy with cheek of tan ! With thy tuftied-up pantaloons, And thy merry-w histled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries...heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! " But the climax is reached when the teacher, probably feeling it necessary for him to take a hand,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...He hath gone before ! " THE BAREFOOT BOY. BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot hoy, with cheek rf tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry...hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy tom brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a harefoot hoy ! Prince thou... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 pages
...expresses his sympathy with lowly child-life, in that home-like poem entitled II.— The Barefoot Boy. 1. Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with...art, — the grown-up man Only is republican. Let the million-dollared ride ! Barefoot, trudging at his side, Thou hast more than he can buy In the reach... | |
| William Sloane Kennedy - 1882 - 324 pages
...undidactic poems as " The Barefoot Boy." " Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tanl With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled...on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace." Also, such fine poems as " Flowers in Winter" and "To My Old Schoolmaster;" as well as the excellent... | |
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