 | 1861 - 676 pages
...themselves would have failed to render in its earnest, innocent, elevated regard. She was very young — Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet — Womanhood and childhood fleet. Good Heavens, I am quoting poetry '. what will you think of me, Hervey, to have gone back to our Wertherian... | |
 | 468 pages
...a Hunter's Life, by R. Gordon Camming. MAIDENHOOD. Maiden ! with the meek brown eyes, In whose orb a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou...brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...brief, The alarm, — the struggle, — the relief, • Then sleep we side by side. MAIDENHOOD. MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow...brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, . On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...of all : Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. MAIDENHOOD. MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow...brook and river meet ! Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...banks of the Ohio. District of Columbia. D. MAIDENHOOD. Maiden! with the meek, brown eyea, In vt hose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou, whose locks outsliinc the sun. Golden tresses, wreathed in one. As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...brief, The alarm, — the struggle, — the relief, • Then sleep we side by side. MAIDENHOOD. MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow...brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep... | |
 | 1843 - 758 pages
...die." Selected. INNOCENCE. BY BW LONGFELLOW, ESO. With an EngraTing. INNOcENcE ! with meek, brown eye* In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Seest thou shadows sailing by As the dove with startled eye, Sees the falcon's shadow fly? Hearest... | |
 | 1848 - 634 pages
...pianofortes sent out from Europe abide the climate of the New World. — CHAPTER VIH. — THE FIRST SORROW. Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. LONGFELLOW. IDA was no longer a child. Seventeen years and six months had done their best to rob her... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...aspiring, Ceaseless content, Darkness or sunshine Thy element; MAIDENHOOD. BY HENEY W. LONOFELLOW. Maiden ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow...brook and river meet ! Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse : Deep... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...sunshine Thy element ; MAIDENHOOD. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Maiden ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whoso orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies...brook and river meet ! Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse : Deep... | |
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MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet. Where the brook and river... 
