 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 365 pages
...He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. "And the children coming home from school Look in at the open...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor." To this fine poem the author very unnecessarily appends the moral in the old way... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1850
...'7'Ae Village Blacksmith,' painted from nature for these pages, has tbis reminiscence of his sitter : ' HE goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hairs AIÄ daugnltr'i roict Xinpinfr in the village eAoir, And it makrjt hie heart rejoice,' We always... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - English language - 1850 - 240 pages
...used in forming? How should the compound verb be parsed in such cases ? Kecite Exercise 137. L.. 6. Children coming home. from school, look in at the open door; They love to see tho flaming forge, and hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly like chaff from... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1851
...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 daughters' voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851
...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 thrashing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 546 pages
...You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, And children coming home from school Look in at the...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... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 552 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 flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks, that fly Like chaff from... | |
 | Ireland - 1855
...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 in at the open door ; Thev love to see tlu- limning forge. Ami hear tlic bellows roar. And ciitcli tlic burning sparks... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852
...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 like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 228 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 threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
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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... 
