| Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
.... The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. 2. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For...ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And... | |
| American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...hung in the well. That moss-cover'd vessel I hail as a treasure ; For often, at noon, when rerurn'd from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite...purest and sweetest that Nature can yield. How ardent 1 seized it, with hands that were glowing! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon,... | |
| American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...well! The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For...field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, The... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...well ! The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well; That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For...ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And... | |
| John Marsh - Hymns, English - 1841 - 120 pages
...hung on the well. That moss covered bucket I hail as a treasure ; For often at noon, when return'd from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature could yield. How ardent I seized, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom... | |
| George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...well! The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. 2. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when retnined from the field, \ found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, And quick to the white pebbled... | |
| Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulics - 1842 - 638 pages
...a dry discussion, as a draught of the sparkling liqnid to a weary traveller of the desert.b ,, * T That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For...ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled hottom it fell : Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And... | |
| Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic machinery - 1842 - 608 pages
...midst of a dry discussion, as a draught of the sparkling liquid to a weary traveller of the desert.b That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For...ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled hottom it fell : Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...vessel I hail as a treasure, For often at noon, when return'd from the field, I found it the souree of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest...How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing, How quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell, Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And... | |
| George Dixon - 1842 - 134 pages
...bucket — the iron-bound bucket — The moss covered bucket, which hung in the well. That moss covered vessel I hail as a treasure, For often at noon, when returned from the Held, t found it the source of an exquisite pleasure ; The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.... | |
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