 So am I!" But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined 'to tarry there, For why? his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew Shot by an archer strong, So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.  Poems - Side 317av William Cowper - 1815Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 458 sider
...the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. 36 At Edmonton, his loving wife 37 Stop, stop, John Gilpin ! — Here's the house ! They...all at once did cry ; The dinner waits, and we are tired : Said Gilpin — So am I ! 38 But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 sider
...both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wond'ring...waits, and we are tir'd: Said Gilpin — So am I ! But jet his horse was not a whit Inclin'd to tarry there; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 sider
...both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild-goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wond'ring...much To see how he did ride. Stop, stop, John Gilpin ! — Here 's the house — They all at once did cry, The dinner waits and we are tir'd : Said Gilpin... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 586 sider
...wild goose at play. At Edmonton, his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin...all at once did cry ; "The dinner waits, and we are tired." — Said Gilpin — "So am I!" But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 sider
...wild goose at play. At Edmonton, his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. 'Stop, stop, John Gilpin! — here's the house!' l« They all at once did cry; 'The dinner waits, and we are tired': — Said Gilpin — 'So am I!'... | |
 | 1920 - 1002 sider
...wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife from the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much to see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin...all at once did cry; " The dinner waits, and we are tired." Said Gilpin — " So am I!" But yet his horse was not a whit inclined to tarry there; For why?... | |
 | 1918 - 684 sider
...Bell," watching for John Gilpin. T. Read the stanza which tells of John's arrival at "The Bell." Ch "Stop, stop, John Gilpin! — Here's the house!" They...all at once did cry; The dinner waits, and we are tired;" Said. Gilpin — "So am I!" T. How did the horse go past " The Bell" ? (A child reads stanza... | |
 | 1819 - 788 sider
...no such weakness degrades Gilpin, who seems almost raised above all the ordinary wants of nature. " Stop ! stop ! John Gilpin— here's the house, They...all at once did cry — The dinner waits, and we are tired ; Said Gilpin — so am 1 1" Not a single word of regret does he utter for the want of that dinner... | |
 | Gordon Norton Ray - 1991 - 390 sider
...inn at Edmonton where his family waits impatiently for the wedding anniversary celebration to begin: "Stop, stop, John Gilpin! — Here's the house!" They...all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;" Said Gilpin — "So am I!" 251 More "Graphic" Pictures by Randolph Caldecott. London, George... | |
 | Judith Phillips Stanton - 2003 - 876 sider
...with him, and when he artives, exhausted from the wild ride, they all call out to him: Stop, stop Jobn Gilpin! — Here's the house — They all at once...dinner waits and we are tir'd, Said Gilpin — so am I. (ll. 145-48) But the horse takes off and tuns another ten miles back home. It is an apt quotation for... | |
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