His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. The Children's journal - Pagina 208Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1855 - 588 pagina’s
...heing celebrated in the verses of his two fellow-townsmen, the poets Longfellow and Lowell ; " Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy stands...large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arm Are strong as iron bands. " His hair is crisp, and black, and long, TTia face is like the tan,... | |
| 1855 - 172 pagina’s
...Does he drill holes in the water? plank? ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIFTH STUDY. ACTIONS OP THE SMITH. " THE smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands." LONGFELLOW. BEAT, to strike; to strike often. MELT, to soften; to make like a Does the smith beat the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 pagina’s
...blessings, on the holy breast, and now on the innocent tresses. MISCELLANEOUS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands...smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the, tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat,... | |
| 1855 - 586 pagina’s
...stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arm Are strong as iron bands. " His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan, TTia brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whote'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face... | |
| 1855 - 1416 pagina’s
...occasionally conceal the mysterious vision altogether from our eyes. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. Under iui'1 sine\vy hands; And the muscles of hit* brawny arms Are strung as iron bands. His hair is crtsp,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pagina’s
...— and, on the dead man's plain, The rider grasps his steed again. UNDER a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pagina’s
...and black and long. ' Mighty. H.mrat. " Large and sinewy." Heavy. Rrawny. " Hard, rough hand." UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.3 His hair is crisp, and black and long ; His face is like the tan ; * His brow is wet with honest... | |
| Reading book - 1856 - 352 pagina’s
...slowly, that is of no consequence. LESSON 82. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDEE a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man...sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms As strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pagina’s
...UNDER a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man ia he, With largo hem an abode. The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and cla blaok, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wot with honest sweat, He earns whatever he... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pagina’s
...Salopia, Shrewsbury. gallabs for LOSGFELLOW'S "VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.' CSDEH a spreading ehestnut-tree # ( museles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is erisp, and blaek, and long, His faeo... | |
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