The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He... Spring flowers gathered for young florists, by S.P. - Էջ 32Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 32 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 2001 - 116 էջ
...Under a spreading chesmut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms...from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge. With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village... | |
 | Ken Tate, Janice Tate - 2001 - 164 էջ
...Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms...from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village... | |
 | Martin T. Orne - 2001 - 76 էջ
...iron band; The smith is very happy As he owes not any man. The actual second stanza is as follows: His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is...the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat He earns what e'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. The last line remembered... | |
 | Andrei Cherny - 2008 - 290 էջ
...more decision-making power. Today, everywhere one turns, the individual is back in charge. A NEW WORLD His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the free For he OWES not any man. —Henry Waekwarth LongfeUmu, The Village Blacksmith, 1842 America was... | |
 | David E. Bonior - 2001 - 276 էջ
...Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. He continues for all eight verses. Charlie may be dreaming of himself as a young man. We marvel at... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 էջ
...Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. -Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith (1842) (s)meit: throw; send. The first sense seems to have been... | |
 | Dale M. Bauer, Philip Gould - 2001 - 372 էջ
...threshing floor." Free of debt, the blacksmith embodies a natural dignity and meets the world head on: "And looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man" (11-12). Furthermore, in the face of seasonal change, Longfellow portrays the way women can connect... | |
 | Barbara Robinette Moss - 2002 - 321 էջ
...reciting his favorite lines of "Gunga Din," he jumped to his favorite lines of "The Village Blacksmith." "His hair is crisp, and black, and long. His face...whole world in the face, for he owes not any man." He recited the same verse three times, then recited the last verse of "Invictus": "It matters not how... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 էջ
...Under a adi chestnut-tree 276 The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms...from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village... | |
 | Joyce Holsclaw - 2004 - 232 էջ
...by Longfellow whose second stanza reads like this: "His hair is crisp, and black, and long His face like the tan, His brow is wet with honest sweat, He...whole world in the face for he owes not any man." In school I used to write one of my favorite sayings on the board each week, and if time permitted,... | |
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