... wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At daybreak on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door.... The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 17by William Wordsworth - 1827Full view - About this book
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...heaven we all shall meet ;" —When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet Then downwards from the steep hill's edge They tracked the footmarks small ; And through the hroken hawthorn hedge, And hy the long stone.wall ; And then an open field they erossed; The marks... | |
| Children's poetry - 1871 - 378 pages
...stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. —When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downward from the steep hill's edge They tracked the footmarks small; And through the broken hawthorn... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 262 pages
...thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from the door. They wept, and turning homeward cried, " In heaven we all shall meet " — When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet ! Half-breathless from the steep hill's edge They tracked the foot-marks small ; And through the broken... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 136 pages
...they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept ; and, turning homeward, cried, " In heaven we all shall meet ! " When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downward from the steep hill's edge They tracked the footmarks small ; And through the broken... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept, and turning homeward, crjed, " In heaven we all shall meet:" When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downward from the steep hill's edge They track the footmarks small; And through the broken hawthorn... | |
| Arithmetic - 1872 - 264 pages
...they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. And, turning homeward, now they cried, " In heaven we all shall meet ! " When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downward from the steep hill's edge They tracked the footmarks small : And through the broken... | |
| Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 104 pages
...overlooked the moor ; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, And, turning homeward, now they cried, " In heaven we all shall meet !" When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downward from the steep hill's edge They tracked the footmarks small ; And through the broken... | |
| National reading books - 1871 - 232 pages
...thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from the door. And, turning homeward, now they cried, " In heaven we all shall meet ! " — When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downward from the steep hill's edge, They tracked the footmarks small ; And through the broken... | |
| George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 pages
...they saw the bridge of wood A furlong from their door. And, turning homeward, now they cried, " In heaven we all shall meet ! " When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downward from the steep hill's edge They track'd the foot-marks small, And through the broken... | |
| Henry Major - 1873 - 104 pages
...they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept, and, turning homeward, cried, " In heaven we all shall meet ! " When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downward from the steep hill's edge They tracked the footmarks small ; And through the broken... | |
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