 O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold. Looped in many a wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the fly his lamp of fire.  Reading with Expression: First-- Reader - Page 250by James Baldwin, Ida Catherine Bender - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purpled-curtained, fringed with gold, Looped in many a wing swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs'...monarch: pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy! Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...spoon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone, gray and rude ! O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,...monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes be hard,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...spoon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone, gray and rude ! O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,...monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes be hard,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 276 pages
...spoon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone gray and rude ! O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,...wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied frog's orchestra ; And to light the noisy choir, Lit the fly his lamp of fire ; — I was monarch :... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - Quotations - 1866 - 320 pages
...spoon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone gray and rude; O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,...wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frog's orchestra; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the fly his lamp of fire. I was monarch; pomp... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...spoon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone, gray and rude ! O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,...monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes be hard,... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1853 - 322 pages
...spSon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone grey and rude ! O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,...wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frog's orchestra; And to light the noisy quire Lit the fly his lamp of fire. I was monarch : pomp and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...spoon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone, gray and rude ! O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, n2 ! Cheerily, then, my little niun, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes be hard,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...bread,— Pewter spoon and bowl of wood, On the door-stone, gray and rude ! O'er me, like a regal 7 tent, Cloudy -ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained,...wind-swung fold ; While for music came the play Of the pied 8 frogs' orchestra ; .And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the fly his lamp of fire. I was monarch :... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1871 - 506 pages
...with gold, 1лх,pеd in many a wind-swnng fold ; While for mnsic came the play Of the pied frngs' orchestra ; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the...of fire. I was monarch : pomp and joy Waited on the harefoot hoy ! Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and bnçh, as hoyhood can ! Thongh the flinty slopes... | |
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