 JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day,...  Poems - Page 274by William Cowper - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...dew-drop from the sun. 49. JOHN GILPIN. JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's...years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. Mv sister,... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...AND CAME SAFE HOME AGAIN [Publ. 1783] JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band 8 2 wedding-day, And we will then repair » Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair. " My sister,... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - American poetry - 1915 - 568 pages
...THAN HE INTENDED AND CAME SAFE HOME AGAIN John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's...years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair. "My sister,... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...AND CAME SAFE HOME AGAIN [Publ. 1783] JOHN GII.PIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band liave seen. " To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair 10 Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All... | |
 | Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - Readers - 1915 - 392 pages
...was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin' s spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been 10 These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have...And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton is All in a chaise and pair. " My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will fill... | |
 | E. Wiersum - Rotterdam (Netherlands) - 1915 - 546 pages
...van de schutterij. Quite right, zei Sla t er, van de sjutteraai. En verder ging het: John Gil p in' s spouse said to her dear: „Though wedded we have...ten tedious years, yet we „No holiday have seen." En dan trekken ze naar de „Bell at Edmonton", een uitspanning, waar de sjees stallen moet — waarom... | |
 | Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn - Criticism - 1916 - 204 pages
...the verse-rhythm, we may effect a compromise that will meet both demands : w — %_> w V — v> — To-morrow is our wedding day And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton — w -^ — V — All in a chaise and pair. It is of course the ear-pleasing verse- rhythm that we... | |
 | George E. Teter - American poetry - 1918 - 456 pages
...the earth. 30 JOHN GILPIN WILLIAM COWPER John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's...years, yet we No holiday have seen. "Tomorrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair. "My sister,... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin 's — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly...There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie burie wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair. "My sister,... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Literature - 1920 - 668 pages
...Patrick Speng." JOHN GILPIN WILLIAM COWPER John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown; A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. « John...years, yet we No holiday have seen. "Tomorrow is our wedding-day 10 And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair. "My sister,... | |
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