 And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage: At his approach complaint grew mild; And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled...  The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 140by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 388 pages
...burning. And he was kind, and lov'd to sit In the low hut or garnish'd cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage. At his approach complaint grew mud, And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter The clammy lips of fever smil'd The welcome which they... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 810 pages
...praise the farmer's homely wit, And when his hand unbarr'd the shatter. The clammy lips of fever smil'd And share the widow's homelier pottage. At his approach complaint grew mild, The welcome which they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Ciesar or of Venus ;... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 pages
...burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage...could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Csesar, or of Venus; From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Quie genus... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 642 pages
...burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage...tale for me Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus; From him I learnt the Rule of Three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Qua genus; I used to singe his powdered wig,... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 pages
...burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage...At his approach complaint grew mild ; And when his hands unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage....shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome that they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Caesar or of Venus ; From him I learned... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage...fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled, — The level lawn, the trickling... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
.... " And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut, or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage....fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. " Sit in the Vicar's seat ; you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 516 pages
...share the widow's homelier pottage : At his approach complaint grew mild, And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome...for me Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus : From him I learn'd the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quce genus; I used to singe his powdered wig,... | |
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