 The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain Whom in a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein ; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run. Away went...  Poems - Seite 283von William Cowper - 1806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1910 - 298 Seiten
...half a crown; And thus unto the youth she said That drove them to the Bell, ' This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well.' The...youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back again: Whom in a trice he tried to stop, By catching at his rein; But not performing what he meant,... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 334 Seiten
...unto the youth she said That drove them to the Bell, '' This shall be yours, when you bring back 110 My husband safe and well." The youth did ride, and...a trice he tried to stop, By catching at his rein; IM But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more,... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - 1915 - 232 Seiten
...the country far away, She pull'd out half a crown; That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well." The...at his rein ; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighten'd steed he frighten'd more, . And made him faster run. Away went... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1915 - 568 Seiten
...out half-a-crown; And thus unto the youth she said That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well." The...at his rein; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin,... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 Seiten
...That drove them to the Bell, " This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well." 3» chal grace, The big ha'-Bible, anee bis father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted inore, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin,... | |
 | Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - 1915 - 392 Seiten
...half-a-crown ; And thus unto the youth she said 5 That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well." The...did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain ; K> Whom in a trice he tried to stop, By catching at his rein ; But not performing what he meant,... | |
 | 1916 - 314 Seiten
...half-a-crown; And thus unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well." The...at his rein; But not performing what he meant. And gladly would have done, The frightened steed he frightened more, And made him faster run. 76 j Away... | |
 | Sister Mary Domitilla - 1917 - 396 Seiten
...far away, She pulled out half a crown. And thus unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming...at his rein ; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frightened more, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin,... | |
 | George E. Teter - 1918 - 456 Seiten
...half-a-crown ; And thus unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well." The...at his rein; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin,... | |
 | 1918 - 2062 Seiten
...out half-a-crown; And thus unto the youth she said That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours, enson slop, By catching at his rein; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted... | |
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