 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 - Side 283av William Cowper - 1806Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 314 sider
...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
...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... | |
 | 1915 - 538 sider
...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 - 918 sider
...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
...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 - 303 sider
...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
...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 - 436 sider
...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 - 4009 sider
...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... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920
...unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours, when you bring back 10 My husband safe and well." The youth did ride, and...a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein; is But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more... | |
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