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. First (-Fourth) reading book - Page 143by Philip George and son, ltd - 1872Full view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 pages
...! MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 272 MISCELLANEOUS!. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNUKU a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the museles of his hrawny arms Are strung as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, Ilis face... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...tresses. THE VILLAGE SLACKSMITH. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. MISCELLANEOUS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH UNDER a spreading chestnut-tree...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bauds. His hair is crisp, and black, and long. His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 148. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDEB a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...immortalized in the affections of our people by a popular poem beginning, Under a spreading chretnul-b-ee The village smithy stands, The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hand* ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are »troDg as iron bands LONGFELLOW. This tree is not,... | |
| Tom Burgess - 1861 - 234 pages
...to my mind that I involuntarily repeated — " Close to the tall, slim poplar trees. The well-known smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; The muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands." But I am forgetting my theme. Time passed... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...unsurpassed, and as such has been immortalized in the affections of our people by a popular poem beginning, Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands. The smith, a mighty man is hr% With large and flinewy hands; And the muscles of hi* •brawny anna Are strong aa iron bands —... | |
| James Everett - 1863 - 252 pages
...The WtsUyan Mamuiwi. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. BT PROFESSOR LONOFBLLOW. UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith a mighty man...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1863 - 234 pages
...work hard close (n.), the end or. finish at-tempt'-ed, tried re-pose' (n.), rest wrought, worhed out Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy...large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny anus Are strong as iron bands. 2 6 13 22 3 2 19 23 4 4 6 13 1 2 18 91 (2) oz. dwt. gr. 4 19 1 9 17... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...grasps his steed again. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bauds. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest... | |
| 1865 - 438 pages
...spotless inhabitant of the city of the living God." — Tract Magazine. TEE YILLA&E BLACKSMITH. UNDEB a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. * Week in, week out, from morn till night You can hear his bellows blow : You hear him swing his heavy... | |
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