 O, — fruit loved of boyhood ! — the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling ! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within ! When we laughed round the corn-heap,...  Poems - Page 330by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1856 - 470 pages
...moistens the lip and what brightens the eye ? What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie ? When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring...a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team ! f Then thanks for thy present ! — none sweeter or better E'er smoked from an oven or circled a... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...boyhood ! — the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were felling ! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring...the corn-heap, with hearts all in tune, Our chair abroad pumpkin — our lantern the moon, Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam, In a... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...boyhood ! — the old days re-' calling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling ! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring...within When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like slfeam, In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...boyhood ! — the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling ! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring...within When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam, In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1871 - 506 pages
...I When we langhed ronnd the corn-heap, with hearts all in tone, Oor chair a hroad pnmpkin, — oor lantern the moon, Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam. In a pnmpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team ! Then thanks for thy present! — none sweeter or... | |
 | Paul Reeves - 1872 - 236 pages
...recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling ; When wild ugly faces we carved on its skin, Glaring out through the dark, with a candle...steam, In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for a team ! Then thanks for thy present ! none sweeter or better E'er smoked from an oven or circled a... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...boyhood ! — the old days recalling, When wood -grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling ! B. Ford and Company abroad pumpkin, — our lantern the moon, Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam In a... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...boyhood ! — the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling ! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring...a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team ! 126 HAMPTON BEACH. Then thanks for thy present ! — none sweeter or better E'er smoked from an oven... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...boyhood ! — the old days recalling, When wood -grapes were purpling and brown nut;; were falling ! to say, That 1 had naught to fear, that all Were...more ? — I will not tire With long recital of the hinten) the moon, Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam In a pumpkin-shell coach, with... | |
 | Elizabeth Lloyd - Readers - 1876 - 156 pages
...loved of boyhood ! the old days recalling When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling, When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring...our lantern the moon, Telling tales of the fairy who traveled like steam In a pumpkin-shell coach with two rats for her team. JOHN G. WHITTIER. LESSON CCXXVIII.... | |
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