 STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry- vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's...  The American Educational Monthly - Page 4091870Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow. And blackberry-vines are running. Within, the master's desk Is seen, Deep...jack-knife's carved Initial; The charcoal frescoes on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1876 - 530 pages
...description of the schoolhouse of his early clays, — "Within, the master's desk ie seen, Deep-scarred with raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial," etc. Such was the acknowledged condition of their buildings up to a very recent period. In 1868, '69... | |
 | Education - 1869 - 376 pages
...choice. Rev. CD Nable. IN SCHOOL-DAYS. Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning j Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines...seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping Hoor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial j The charcoal frescoes on the wall ; Its... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - Children's literature - 1870 - 884 pages
...answered Stephen, as if he knew human nature, and had got used himself to most things. IN SCHOOL-DAYS. STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged...seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal frescos on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went... | |
 | Literature - 1872 - 818 pages
...old and brown. Here was kept the " ragged winter school " which Whittier attended in his boyhood. " Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged...are running. " Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep-scarred by raps official, The warping floor, the battered teats, The jack-knife's carved initial... | |
 | 1870 - 914 pages
...schoolhouse by the road, A ragced beggar sunning ; Around it scitl the sumachs grow. And blackberry vines arc running. Within, the master's desk is seen. Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, [he battered seats. The jack-knife's carved initial— The charcoal frescoes on its walls, Its door's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1871 - 120 pages
...answered, with a wise smile, to himself: " I saw the angel where they see a man." IN SCHOOL-DAYS. OTILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged -beggar...seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal frescos on its wall ; • Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...again, and to bear witness that it was made happy by what I answered. IN SCHOOL DATS.— JG WHTTTIKR. STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged...jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal frescoes on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that creeping slow to school, Went storming out to... | |
 | Education - 1872 - 456 pages
...by the readjust as Whittier pictures it "In School Days," the sweetest of all his shorter poems. " Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged...grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the muster's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official; The wnrping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Animals - 1872 - 296 pages
...its gloomy way ; And it wiles my heart from its dreariness To see the young so gay. — NP Willix. , sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar...Around it still the sumachs grow And blackberry vines arc; running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor,... | |
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