 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
 | American poetry - 1909 - 354 pages
...widow's homelier pottage: At his approach complaint grew mild; And when his hand unbarr'd the shuttei, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which...tale for me Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus; From him I learnt the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quae genus: I used to singe his powder'd wig,... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 240 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 Caasar, or of Venus ; From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Qua genus... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1910 - 1082 pages
...conjectures." "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." § 3. The Catholic Poets, While poets like Praed might belong to almost any age, the group which has... | |
 | A. E. Sharp - English language - 1911 - 264 pages
...the widow's homelier pottage. 16. At his approach complaint grew mild ; And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. 17. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Csesar, or of Venus; From him I learnt the rule of three.... | |
 | Hugh Walker, Janie Roxburgh Walker - English literature - 1913 - 1116 pages
...conjectures." "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." § 3. The Catholic Poets. While poets like Praed might belong to almost any age, the group which has... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1913 - 1048 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 learnt the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quae genus : I used to singe his powder'd wig,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1913 - 1048 pages
...burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnish'd cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage...his approach complaint grew mild ; And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. He always... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - England - 1914 - 518 pages
...them. 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....lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not mutter. Where is the old man laid ? Look down And construe on the slate before you : ///'•• jacet... | |
 | Society verse - 1922 - 392 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:...grew mild; And when his hand unbarred the shutter, 270 The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. He always had a tale for... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, 75 And share the widow's homelier pottage. At his approach...they could not utter. He always had a tale for me s1 Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus; From him I learnt the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leapfrog, and... | |
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