Wordsworth for the young; selections with an introduction for parents and teachers (1891)
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919, comp · Boston, D. Lothrop company · leaf 117
he mountain-ponies prick their ears,— They hear the Danish Boy,While in the dell he sings aloneBeside the tree and corner-stone. V. There sits he ; in his face you spy No trace of a ferocious air, Nor ever was a cloudless sky So steady or so fair. The lovely Danish Boy is blest And happy in his… … NE morning (raw it was and wet —A foggy day in winter time)A Woman on the road I met,Not old, though something past her prime ;Majestic in her person, tall and straight;And like a Roman matrons was her mienand gait. The ancient spirit is not dead; Old times, thought I, are breathing there; Proud…
Children's poetry, English
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