Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown
An' peeked in thru' the winder,
An' there sot Huldy all alone,
'Ith no one nigh to hender.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
-- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'
An' peeked in thru' the winder,
An' there sot Huldy all alone,
'Ith no one nigh to hender.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
-- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'
Related:
- His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers... - All kin' o' smily round the lips,
An' teary round the lashes.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers... - Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
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The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin', No... - Like streams that keep a summer mind
Snow-hid in Jenooary.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers... - Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers... - The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers... - T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look
On sech a blessed cretur.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers... - Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,
An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers... - Under the yaller pines I house,
When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,
An' hear among their furry boughs The baskin' west...
