| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 280 sider
...Pe'-ter-kin, little Peter It was a summer evening, Old Caspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun ; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Eoll something large and round, That he beside the rivulet In playing... | |
| William Leeke - 1866 - 500 sider
...the latter." " It was a summer evening, Old Kasper's work was done, And he, before his cottage door, "Was sitting in the sun ; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild, Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterldn Roll something large and round, That he beside the rivulet In playing... | |
| English poetry - 1866 - 194 sider
...AFTER BLENHEIM, IT was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun ; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild, Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round, Which he beside the rivulet In playing... | |
| Juvenile verse and picture book - 1866 - 130 sider
...BLENHEIM. TT was a summer's evening, -*- Old Casper's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun ; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. " My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by ; They burnt his dwelling to the ground,... | |
| Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 sider
...And measureless thy joy or grief, When Time and thou shalt part for ever !" THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM. IT was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done; And he, before his cottage door, Was sitting in the sun. And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 sider
...works are " Joan of Arc," " Thalaba the Destroyer," "Madoc," "Roderick," and the "Curse of Kehama." 1. IT was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he, before his cottage door, Was sitting in the sun;* And by him sported on the green, His little grandchild Wilhelmine.... | |
| Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - 1989 - 216 sider
...whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. William Shakespeare After Blenheim It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.... | |
| Joseph Fahey, Richard Armstrong - 1992 - 500 sider
...loath and cold. Let us sleep now . . ." 11 The Battle of Blenheim (August 13, 1704) Robert Southey It was a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done....by him sported on the green His little grandchild, Wilhehnine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round. That he beside the rivulet,... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 sider
...Succession. England won a great victory, but who today can say what good came of it? The Battle of Blenheim It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.... | |
| Sheila Hales - 1994 - 160 sider
...in the trenches and on the battlefield and wrote his poems as a protest against war. After Blenheim It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun: And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine... | |
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