The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat,... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 4191840Full view - About this book
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...a spreading chcsnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms...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. Week in,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms...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. Week in,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms...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. Week in,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...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, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 pages
...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, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in,... | |
| Historic buildings - 1855 - 586 pages
...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... | |
| Ireland - 1855 - 1416 pages
...iui'1 sine\vy hands; And the muscles of hit* brawny arms Are strung as iron bands. His hair is crtsp, o He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in,... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...UNDER a spreading chesnut tree The village smithy stands, The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For... | |
| English language - 1855 - 172 pages
...HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIFTH STUDY. ACTIONS OP THE SMITH. " THE smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Arc strong as iron bands. Hie hair is crisp, and black, and long ; His face is like the tan ; Hie brow is wet with honest sweat ; He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face,... | |
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