 ... the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it. with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing....  Goodrich's Fifth School Reader - Page 135by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Children - 1836 - 498 pages
...it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing'. And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well ; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it. As poised on the curb it inclined... | |
 | Education - 1820 - 436 pages
...bucket— the iron bound bucket— The moss covered bucket, which hangs in tlie well. That moss covered vessel I hail as a treasure, For often, at noon, when returned from tlie field, found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1821 - 154 pages
...where the cataract fell, Tht cot of my faiher, the dairy houte nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket which hung in the well, The old oaken bucket — the iron-bound bucket — The moss covered bucket, which hung in the well. That moss covered vessel I hail as a treasure, For often,... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of IrntJi overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket. The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well. How sweet from the green.mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the enrb it inclined... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well ; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well. How sweet from the green-mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...it fell ! Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well. How sweet from the green, mossy brim to receive it, Aa, poised on the curb, it... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...rude bucket which hung in the well; The old oaken bucket—the iron-bound bucket— The moss covered bucket, which hung in the well. 2 That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure— How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell;... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 406 pages
...iron-bound bueket, The mou-eovered bueket, whieh hung in the well. '!, , ' That moss-eovered veasel I hail as a treasure ; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I fbund it the SOUTCC of an exquisita plessure, The purest and sweetest that nature ean yield. How ardent... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...intrusively swell, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sighs for the bucket which hangs in the well ; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hangs in his well. MRS. OILMAN. THE CHILD S WISH IN JUNE. MOTHEE, mother, the winds are at play, Prithee,... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...intrusively swell, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sigh.« for the bucket which hongs in the well , The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hongs in THE FAMILY MAGAZINE. MISCELLANY. How groat was (he joy of Ossian, when he beheld the distant... | |
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