 Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 4191840Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice : — It sounds to him... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...sledge, With measured beat, and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village-bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a thrashing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | American poetry - 1856 - 352 pages
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like the chaff from a threshing floor. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...heavy sledge. With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that Hy Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming homo take their pastime in the spacious field : There they are privileged ; and he that hunts Or harms threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | John Holland - 1856 - 386 pages
...Everett's Memoir of Samuel Hick, " The Village Blacksmith." CONVERSATION. 209 " And children coming Lome from school, Look in at the open door ; They love...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor." And then the moral built upon the blacksmith's "something attempted— something... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...sledge , With measured heat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village hell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the hellows roar, And catch the hurning sparks that fly Like chalf from a thrashing floor. He goes on Sunday... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And ehildren eoming heme from seheol c# d d c eateh the burning sparks that fly Like ehaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the ehureh,... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the old kirk chimes, When the evening sun is low. And children, coming home from school, Look in at the open door : They love to see a flamiqg forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks, that fly Like chaff from... | |
 | Handicraft - 1857 - 34 pages
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
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