Songs for FishermenStewart Kidd Company, 1922 - 330 pages |
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a-fishing American Angler angle angler bait bank bass BASS FISHING biggest fish birds birr black bass bonny Tweed breeze bright brook BROOK TROUT brooklet cast caught Clair Adams Clinton Scollard cool creel crystal dark darts deep doth dream feel Field and Stream fins fisher fisherman flies float flow Forest and Stream gentle gettin gleam glide golden green Green Days heart hook hurra Isaac McLellan IZAAK WALTON James Whitcomb Riley KEEP FISHIN lake leap lure minnow morning night nook o'er old Brandywine old rod Permission of Field Permission of Forest pines pool redeyes bite Reilly & Lee ripples river rod and reel round salmon shining shore silver sing song speckled sport spring STRIPED BASS sweet tackle thee There's Thomas Tod Stoddart thou thro tide toil trees trout waters wave weary wild wind worm
Popular passages
Page 32 - Drink a cup to wash our eyes ; Leave the sluggard sleeping: Then we go To and fro, With our knacks At our backs, To such streams As the Thames, If we have the leisure. When we please to walk abroad For our recreation, In the fields is our abode, Full of delectation : Where in a brook With a hook, Or a lake, Fish we take : There we sit, For a bit, Till we fish entangle.
Page 270 - Linger awhile upon some bending planks That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle doings: They will be found softer than ring-dove's cooings.
Page 87 - And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown. But men must work, and women must weep, Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbor bar be moaning.
Page 127 - Show's begun. The flocks of young anemones Are dancing round the budding trees : Who can help wishing to go a-fishing In days as full of joy as these?
Page 293 - Then up arose the oysterman, and to himself said he, "I guess I'll leave the skiff at home, for fear that folks should see; I read it in the story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont,— and I will swim this here.
Page 176 - Trees, the Monarch of the Brook, Behoves you then to ply your finest Art. Long time he, following cautious, scans the Fly ; And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft The dimpled Water speaks his jealous Fear.
Page 147 - Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t" embrace, And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or, worse, in war and wantonness. " Let them that list these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill, So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will. Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth, and yellew daffodil, Purple Narcissus like the morning rays, Pale gander-grass, and azure culver-keys.
Page 65 - Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so (illy as to a whale; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful.
Page 10 - Nay, let me tell you, there be many that have forty times our estates, that would give the greatest part of it to be healthful and cheerful like us, who, with the expense of a little money, have eat and drunk, and laughed, and angled, and sung, and slept securely ; and rose next day and cast away care, and sung, and laughed, and angled again ; which are blessings rich men cannot purchase with all their money.
Page 86 - THREE fishers went sailing away to the West, Away to the West as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town; For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning. Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Songs for Fishermen |
| Author | Joseph Morris Bachelor |
| Publisher | Stewart Kidd Company, 1922 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 330 pages |
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