| 1866 - 924 pages
...ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. ВТ JO WHITTIEB. IN the old days (a custom laid aside With breeches und cocked hate), the people sent Their wisest men to make the public laws. And so, frjm a brown homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Miañas, Waved over by the... | |
| 1866 - 976 pages
...home-made wine, and gone to sleep under the trees in the appleorchard. 1 866.] Abraham Davenport. 5 39 ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. IN the old days (a custom laid...homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas, Waved over by the woods of Rippowams, And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 184 pages
...written when the Asian plague drew near, And the land held its breath and paled with sudden fear." ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. IN the old days (a custom laid...homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas, Waved over by the woods of Rippowams, And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford... | |
| 1867 - 844 pages
...laid aside With breeches and cocked hats) the people lent Their wisest men to make the public lawg. ^ And so, from a brown homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianaa, Wared over by the woods of Rippowams, Aad hallowed by pare lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...chapel all aflame, And, dumb with grateful wonder, to behold Upon the altar candlesticks of gold ! ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. IN the old days (a custom laid...homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas, Waved over by the woods of Rippowams, And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...Asian plague drew near, And the land held its breath and paled with sudden fear." ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. IK the old days (a custom laid aside With breeches and...homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas, Waved over by the woods of Rippowams, And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...written when the Asian plague drew near, And the land held its breath and paled with sudden fear." ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. IN the old days (a custom laid...laws. And so, from a brown homestead, where the Sound 'Twas on a May-day of the far old year Seventeen hundred eighty, that there fell Over the bloom and... | |
| Amzi Benedict Davenport - 1876 - 484 pages
...Greenleaf Whittier, and is here copied, by his permission, from " The Tent on the Beach," pp. 98-102 : ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. In the old days (a custom laid...homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas, Waved over by the woods of Rippowams, And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford... | |
| George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pages
...natural scenery correctly and beautifully ; and a vein of genuine tenderness runs through his writings. IN the old days (a custom laid aside With breeches...homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas, Waved over by the woods of Kippowams, And hallowed by pnre lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 316 pages
...when they see the sign Of the blazing wreck of the Palatine ! ABRAHAM DAVENPORT IN the old days ta custom laid aside With breeches and cocked hats) the...homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas, Waved over by the woods of Hippowams, And hallowed by pure lives and tianquil deaths, Stamford... | |
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