 ... tresses fell, Which were blackest none could tell, But long lashes veiled a light, That had else been all too bright. And her hat, with shady brim, Made her tressy forehead dim; Thus she stood amid the stocks, Praising God with sweetest looks: Sure,...  Heart Songs: A Book for the Gift-season - Page 37edited by - 1856 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 200 pages
...stocks, ' Praising God with sweetest looks :— 5. ' Sure,' I said, ' Heav'n did not mean, Where I reap thou should'st but glean ; Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home.' HOOB. FROM ALFRED TO THE DANISH CONQUEST. AD 901 to 1035. es-ta-blish-ed peaoe-a-bly ap-proach-ing... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...amid the stocks, Praising God with sweetest looks. Sure, l said, Heav'n did not mean, Where I reap thou shouldst but glean : Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. WILLIAM MOTHERWELL. 1797—1835. WEARIE'S WELL. IN a saft simmer gloamin, Jn yon dowie dell, It was... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...stood amid the stocks, Praising God with sweetest looks. Sure, I said, Heaven did not mean Where I reap thou shouldst but glean ; Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. A PARENTAL ODE TO MY SON. AGED THREE YEARS AND FIVE MONTHS. Thou happy, happy elf! (But stop — first... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1881 - 482 pages
...the stocks, Praising God with sweetest looks : — Sure, I said, Heav'n did not mean, Where I reap thou shouldst but glean, Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. A FAIRY TALE. ON Hounslow heath — and close beside the road, As western travellers may oft have seen,... | |
 | 1881 - 210 pages
...God with sweetest looks : My Ain Kind Dearie! O. 73 Sure, I said, Heaven did not mean Where I reap thou shouldst but glean ; Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. Thomas Hood. MY AIN KIND DEARIE! O. "\ \J HEN o'er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...amid the stocks, Praising God with sweetest looks. — Sure, I said, Heaven did not mean, Where I reap thou shouldst but glean ; Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. From BEN BATTLE. [Last verse mis-sorted. ] Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...the stooks, Praising God with sweetest looks :- • Sure, I said, heav'n did not mean, Where I reap at night Its tale of ruin tells. Thus Freedom now THOMAS HOOD. 144 POEMS OF LOVE. PHILLID A AND CORYDON. Ix tlie merrie moneth of Maye, In a morne by... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...God with sweetest looks. Sure, I said, Heaven did not mean Where I reap thou shouldst but glean ; i raises in his arms, Feeds from his hand, and in his bosom w THOMAS HOOD. BABYLON. THE many-colored domes Yet wore one dusky hue ; The cranes upon the mosque Kept... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1882 - 212 pages
...amid the stocks, Praising God with sweetest looks. " Sure,' I said, ' Heaven did not mean Where I reap thou should'st but glean Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home.'" Thomas Hood, 143 CHAPTER III. THE CLAIMANT IN THE THRESHING FLOOR. CONTENTS. — Ruth, at the instigation... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1882 - 476 pages
...the stooks, Praising God with sweetest looks : — Sure, I said, Heav'n did not mean, Where I reap thou shouldst but glean, Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. [In this year mr latber pcllished the "Pie* of the Midsummer Fairies" not m very sacohssful Tettare... | |
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