 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1863 - 234 pages
...finish at-tempt'-ed, tried re-pose' (n.), rest wrought, worhed out Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man...large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny anus Are strong as iron bands. 2 6 13 22 3 2 19 23 4 4 6 13 1 2 18 91 (2) oz. dwt. gr. 4 19 1 9 17... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...neigh Arose, — and, on the dead man's plain, The rider grasps his steed again. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bauds. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...It is growing late and dark, And my boy does not return !" MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. i84i—i846—i858. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like»the tan ; His brow is wet with honest... | |
 | 1865 - 438 pages
...city of the living God." — Tract Magazine. TEE YILLA&E BLACKSMITH. UNDEB a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands : The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. * Week in, week out, from morn till night You can hear his bellows blow : You hear him swing his heavy... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 pages
...squall, when the cheese she let And the fox ran away with the prize 2.— THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. I. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...large and sinewy hands , And the muscles of his brawny anna Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His... | |
 | Kate Wood - 1865 - 334 pages
...NEWBY, PUBLISHER, 30, WELBEOK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, IT MAY BE TBUE. CHAPTER I. NEWS FROM HOME " The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms 11 in face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat; Are strong as iron bands. His hair... | |
 | 1871 - 868 pages
...Jean, The day is aye fair, — In the land o' the leal.1 " Emily. " ' Under the spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands.' " Alfred. " ' Vashti for pride Was set aside.' • Who dares to say the New England Primer is n't first-class... | |
 | Book - 1865 - 308 pages
...love was aye between them twa. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. I Ni'i:i; a spreading ehosnut tree The Tillage smithy stands : The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the museles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is erisp, and blaek, and long, His faeo... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 pages
...the simpler exercises are all that we purpose to give here. EXERCISES. ORDINARY COMMON-PLACE TONE. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms ORDINARY LIVELY TONE. Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea! Bird of... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...shall sound, And thy dead be unbound. For the night is far spent, And the day is at hand ! ANONYMOUS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut...village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long... | |
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His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. 
