 I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing ! And quick to the white-pebbled...  Recitations for the Social Circle - Page 262edited by - 1896 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Asa Fitz - 1854 - 204 pages
...could yield. H}w ardent I seized it, with hanas thai were glowing. A»v' quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell, Then soon with the emblem of truth...coolness it rose from the well. The old oaken bucket, the iron bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. 1 How sweet from the green mossy rim... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - 1855 - 490 pages
...nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth...; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-cover'd bucket arose from the well. TO A COUGH. On being ordered by physicians to pass tbe winter... | |
 | Elias Nason - 1855 - 134 pages
...ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing; And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell, And soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping...The old oaken bucket — the iron-bound bucket, The moss-cover'd bucket arose from the well. 3 How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As pois'd... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...from the well — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covcr'd bucket, arose frota morning of thy life is glowing, Ere the dim phantoms...thou art chasing die ; Life hath but shadows, save a Xota full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, The brightest that beauty or revelry sips. And... | |
 | Select poetry - 1855 - 80 pages
...nature can yield. How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell, Then soon with the emblem of truth...And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well J The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. How soft... | |
 | Asa Fitz - 1855 - 200 pages
...nature could yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing. And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell, Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness it lose from -the well. The old oaken bucket, the iron bound bucket, . The moss-covered bucket arose from... | |
 | N. Brittan, L. H. Sherwood - 1855 - 400 pages
...from the field, How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coldness, it rose from the well. The old oaken bucket, The iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket,... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - 1855 - 380 pages
...cataract fell ; The cot of my father, the dairy house nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket which hung in the well! The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. That moss-covered* vessel I hail as a treasure ; For often, at noon, when returned... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 pages
...nature can yield. How ardent I seized it with hands that we're glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth...sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, pois'd on the curb, it inclined to my lips! Not, a full blushing gublet could tempt me to leave it,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...seized it with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then eoon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping...sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, pois'd on the curb, it inclined to my lips! Not a full blushing gublet could tempt me to leave it,... | |
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