 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.  The New Century Third Reader - Page 941899 - 238 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...them which is not very often the characteristic of our poet's muse. He is seldom so graphic as this : "Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hand, And the muscles of his brawny arms "His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Crisp, and black and long." Mighty. Honest. 44 Large and sinewy.'" Heavy. Brawny. " Hard, rough hand." UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.8 His hair is crisp, and black and long ; His face is like the tan ; 8 His brow is wet with honest... | |
 | 1851 - 344 pages
...And doubt not at the ravening wave, For CHRIST is still within our bark To succour and to savel JB THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut...large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny anna Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pages
...chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a michty man is he. With large and sinewy hamls ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as Iron bands. His hair In crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the ton; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He cams... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...neigh Arose, — and, on the dead man's plain, The rider grasps his steed again. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut...With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his hra\vny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...; but bright the gloom Around the funeral pile. JGC BEAINAED. LESSON IX. THE VILLAGE BLACESMITH. 1. UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. 2. His hair is crisp, and black, and long^; His face is like the tan^; His brow is wet with honest... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
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