 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 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. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 pages
...well — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. 2° How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it,...lips/ Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, The brightest that beauty or revelry sips. And now, far removed from the loved habitation,... | |
 | John Jacob Brooke Morgan - 1924 - 324 pages
...cataract fell, The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket that hung in the well — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket that hung in the well. The following case extract illustrates this. A young girl was in love and was... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing ! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom if fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolnessj it rose from the well ;• — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1925 - 448 pages
...intrusively swell, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sighs for the bucket that hangs in the well — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket that hangs in the well! RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) The Little Beach-Bird Thou little bird, them... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1887 - 252 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. 2. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a +treasure ; For often, at noon, when... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, '5 And quick to the white-pebbled the wigwam? With his great eyes lights the wigwam?...heaven ; Showed him Ishkoodah, the comet, IshkoodM , rue to leave it, The brightest that beauty or revelry sips. And now, far removed from the ioved habitation,... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. 2 ° How sweet from,the green mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb...lips/ Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, . The brightest that beauty or revelry sips. And now, far removed from the ioved habitation,... | |
 | Bliss Carman - 1927 - 718 pages
...cataract fell, The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket that 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 hailed as a treasure, For often at noon, when returned... | |
 | 1927 - 490 pages
...intrusively swell, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sighs for the bucket which hangs in the well — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hangs in the well. — Samutl Woodworth (As censored by the Board of Health) WITH what anguish... | |
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