 | Mary Grace Fickett - 1902 - 208 pages
...Birthday, February 27, 1879, this Chair, made from the Wood of the Village Blacksmith's Chestnut Tree: AM I a king, that I should call my own This splendid...song It may to me belong; Only because the spreading chestnut tree Of old was sung by me. Well I remember it in all its prime, When in the summer time The... | |
 | S. D. Waterman, J. W. McClymonds, C. C. Hughes - 1903 - 200 pages
...; and said, 'Who kissed vou through the dark, dear guesser ? -—Mrs. Browning, FROM MY ARM-CHAIR." Am I a king that I should call my own This splendid...song It may to me belong : Only because the spreading chestnut tree Of old was sung by me. Well I remember it in all its prime, When in the summer time The... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 738 pages
...BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 2J, 1879, TH'S CHAIR MADE FROM THE WOOD OF THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH'S CHESTNUT TREE. 1 AM I a king, that I should call my own This splendid...song It may to me belong; Only because the spreading chestnut tree Of old was sung by me. Well I remember it in all its prime, When in the summer-time ra... | |
 | Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1905 - 614 pages
...Mr. Longfellow was so pleased with the gift that he at once wrote a poem about it, in which he asks: Am I a king that I should call my own This splendid ebon throne? * » * # » Only because the spreading chestnut tree Of old was sung by me. And again: The heart hath... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 150 pages
...BIBTHDAY, FEBHUAHT 27, 1879, THIS CHAIB MADE FEOM THE WOOD OF THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH'S CHESTNUT-TREE AM I a king, that I should call my own This splendid...the spreading chestnut-tree Of old was sung by me. Well I remember it in all its prime When in the summer-time The affluent foh'age of its branches made... | |
 | May Louise Harvey - 1908 - 234 pages
...him on his birthday. This pleased him very much indeed. He wrote a poem to thank them for their gift, beginning : "Am I a king that I should call my own, This splendid ebon throne ? " The children were delighted, as you may well suppose, and not only they, but all children the wide... | |
 | Jacob Chester Chamberlain - 1909 - 224 pages
...Birthday February 27, 1879, this Chair, made from the Wood of the Village Blacksmith's Chestnut Tree. AM I a king, that I should call my own This splendid...the spreading chestnut-tree Of old was sung by me. [SEE No. 544.] I PRESENTATION COPY FROM LONGFELLOW, WITH LETTER. 547. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 pages
...BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 2/, 1879, THIS CHAIR MADE FROM THE WOOD OF THR VILLAGE BLACKSMITH'S CHESTNUT TREE. AM I a king, that I should call my own This splendid...song It may to me belong; Only because the spreading chestnut tree Of old was sung by me. Well I remember it in all its prime, When in the summer-time The... | |
 | Michigan. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1911 - 218 pages
...on a sheet, and was accustomed to give a copy to each child who visited him and sat in the chair.) Am I a king, that I should call my own This splendid...song It may to me belong; Only because the spreading chestnut tree Of old was sung by me. Well I remember it in all its prime, When in the summer-time The... | |
 | 1912 - 240 pages
...BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1879, THIS CHAIR MADE FBOM THE WOOD OF TUB •VILLAGE BLACKSMITH'S CHESTNUT-TREE. AM I a king, that I should call my own This splendid...the spreading chestnut-tree Of old was sung by me. 2 Well I remember it in all its prime, When in the summer-time The affluent foliage of its branches... | |
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AM I a king, that I should call my own This splendid ebon throne ? Or by what reason, or what right divine, Can I proclaim it mine ? Only, perhaps, by right divine of song It may to me belong ; Only because the spreading chestnut tree Of old was sung... 
