 | John Farmer - New Hampshire - 1824 - 492 pages
...the year 1630, taken memoriter in 1791, from the lips of old lady, at the advanced age of 92.] 1. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good ; Our mountains and hills and our rallies helow, Being commonly covered with... | |
 | United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...England's annoyances you that would know them, Pray ponder these verses which briefly do show them. I. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good : Our mountains and hills and our valleys below, Being commonly covered with... | |
 | Alonzo Lewis - Lynn (Mass.) - 1829 - 278 pages
...this time, exhibits some of the peculiar customs and modes of thinking among the early settlers. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good ; Our mountains and hills, and our valleys below, Being commonly covered with... | |
 | James Robinson Newhall - Essex County (Mass.) - 1836 - 300 pages
...been written about this time, and exhibit some of the peculiar circumstances of the settlers : — The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good ; Our mountains and hills, and our valleys below, Being commonly covered with... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1838 - 662 pages
...England's annoyances you that would know them, Fray ponder these vereea which briefly doth show them. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good : Our mountains and hills and our valleys below, Being commonly covered with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...England*3 annoyances, you that would know them, Pray ponder these verm which briefly do ibow them. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that 's fruitful and good : Our mountains and hills and our valleys below Being commonly cover'd with ice and with snow : And... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...Indian Peru," in his Fiiery Q'lem), is a doggerel list of " New England's Annoyances :" — "The plncn where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful auil good. If fresh meat be wanting to fill up our dish, We have carrots and pumpkins... | |
 | William Shaw Russell - Massachusetts - 1846 - 450 pages
...England's annoyances you that would know them, Pray ponder these verses, which briefly do show them. THE place where we live, is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanted that 's fruitful and good ; Our mountains and hills, and our valleys below, Are commonly covered... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - Massachusetts - 1853 - 388 pages
...back almost to the very days of the Pilgrims, and which is by no means deficient in humour : — " The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wauted that's fruitful and good ; Our mountains and hub, and our valleys below, Are commonly cover'd... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...England's annoyances you that would know them. Pray ponder these verses which briefly doth shew them. The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good: Our mountains and hills and our rallies below, Being commonly covered with... | |
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THE place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good-, Our mountains and hills and our valleys below Being commonly covered with ice and with snow : And when the north-west wind with violence blows. Then every... 
