 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 meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet...  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 1121849Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 pages
...silence windest Through the meadows bright and free, Till at length thy rest thou findest MAIDENHOOD. Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the .brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! THE BELFRY OF BRUGES. In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...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...childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful... | |
 | Matilda Homersham - 1868 - 300 pages
...CHAELES W. WOOD, 13, TAV1STOCK ST., STEAND. 1868. All rights reserved. ETHEL'S BOMANGE. CHAPTER I. " Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and...childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1868 - 476 pages
...not really tell myself. I suppose I was unconsciously realizing to myself Longfellow's stanzas — " Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and...and childhood fleet. " Gazing with a timid glance On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse." Yes; half timid and reluctant, — yet... | |
 | Matilda Homersham - 1868 - 306 pages
...unconscious, and half child-like in her demeanour. She reminds me of Longfellow's ' Maidenhood ' — ' Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and...Womanhood and childhood fleet! Gazing with a timid glance At the brooklet's swift advance On the river's broad expanse !' And she is a good little girl at heart,... | |
 | Harriet Frances Thynne (lady Charles.) - 1868 - 566 pages
...the restoration of the place ; for was it not to be the inheritance of little Ferdinand ? CHAPTER V. Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. Like the swell of some sweet tune Morning rises into noon, May glides onward into June. LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | Jessie Glenn, Jessie Glenn Schenck - 1868 - 340 pages
...that separation, and with anxious and foreboding hearts they bade him adieu. CHAPTEB LUCY ItANDOLPH. .'«Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet I" "Foftiy! She is lying, With her lips apart, Softly! She is dying Of a broken heart'' LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | 1868 - 452 pages
...mamma said, with a half sigh, as she put in the tack, and thought how her daughter was growing up, " Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet ; Womanhood and childhood fleet." Next to Christine's, hung Katie's, who had just come home from a long visit to grandma's ; between... | |
 | Agnes Giberne - 1869 - 362 pages
...Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets ran 1 " Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet." LONGFELLOW. " NUMBER sixteen, Rue St. ," said Mr. Vincent to himself, as he glanced at the address... | |
 | Hetty Bowman - 1869 - 328 pages
...the rooks cawed a drowsy greeting, as they wheeled in lazy circles overhead. For I was still — ' Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet.' The untrodden ground before me looked very fair in its promise, and in the ringing voices which seemed... | |
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