 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...his hands full of blessings, Now on the holy breast, and now on the innocent tresses. MISCELLANEOUS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut...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,... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - American literature - 1854 - 338 pages
...aching, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. HENRY W. LOXGFELLOW. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDEB a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands...the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat He earns whatever he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in and week out,... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...air, Hath e'en for thee a Father's care ! HEMANS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chesnut tree The village smithy stands, The smith, a mighty...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... | |
 | Historic buildings - 1855 - 588 pages
...happiness of heing celebrated in the verses of his two fellow-townsmen, the poets Longfellow and Lowell ; " Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy...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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...Like red leaves be swept away ! Kyrie E lev sou ! Curiste Eleyson ! THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 1 'MH.II keeps his larders full ; And he loves the darkness old, To the eagle all so Arc strong as iron bands. Hie hair is crisp, and black, and long ; His face is like the tan ; Hie brow... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 pages
...prayer, his hands full of blessings, on the holy breast, and now on the innocent tresses. MISCELLANEOUS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut...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,... | |
 | English language - 1855 - 172 pages
...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... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 1416 pages
...cloud of flying sparks, which occasionally conceal the mysterious vision altogether from our eyes. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. Under a spreading chestnut...stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he. With large iui'1 sine\vy hands; And the muscles of hit* brawny arms Are strung as iron bands. His hair is crtsp,... | |
 | American poetry - 1856 - 352 pages
...us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still aching, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading...the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat He earns whatever he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . Week in and week... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...Crisp, and black and long. ' Mighty. H.mrat. " Large and sinewy." Heavy. Rrawny. " Hard, rough hand." UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...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... | |
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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. 
