| 1907 - 922 páginas
...of "The Building oi the Ship." The busy activit;. ropewalk also impressed hin in later life he wr< In that building, long and low, With its windows all...a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down tlu-ir thri; "OLD JERUSALEM" — FIRST PARISH MEETING-HOUSE (UNITARIAN) 1 possesses one of the best... | |
| Alfred S. Lowry - 1908 - 418 páginas
...sudden — unexpected you know ? The Ropswalk. In that building long and low, With its windows ail a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders...their threads so thin. Dropping, each, a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door ; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane J And the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 páginas
..." A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." THE ROPEWALK IN that building, long and low, With its windows all...their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane ; And the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 294 páginas
...boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." 90 THE ROPEWALK0 IN that building, long and low, With its windows all...spin and spin, Backward down their threads so thin 5 Dropping, each a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the... | |
| 1918 - 586 páginas
...Could Longfellow have had in mind Mr. Irwin's famous establishment when he wrote the expressive lines? "In that building long and low With its windows all...their threads so thin Dropping each a hempen bulk." A movement was begun for the erection of a bridge to connect Allegheny Town with St. Clair Street.... | |
| State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) - 1919 - 92 páginas
...rope walk, which was one of the attractions of the old place, and well described by these words: — " In that building long and low, With its windows all...their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk. " After serving an apprenticeship in the work-shop, those who wanted to follow the sea were given the... | |
| Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 páginas
...A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." THE ROPEWALK. IN that building, long and low, With its windows all...their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk. J\t the end, an open door ; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane ; And the... | |
| George Thornton Edwards - 1928 - 586 páginas
...windows all a-row, while, Like the port-holes of the hulk, he, with his fellow employes, did, like Human spiders, spin and spin Backward down their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk, Squares of sunshine on the floor . . . At the end, an open door Lit the long and dusky lane as, perhaps,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1988 - 442 páginas
..."A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." THE ROPEWALK IN that building, long and low, With its windows all...spin and spin, Backward down their threads so thin Droppping, each a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the... | |
| Various - 1996 - 496 páginas
...forth its races, but does not restore, 60 And the dead nations never rise again. 1852 THE ROPEWALK In that building, long and low, With its windows all...port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, 5 Backward down their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door; Squares... | |
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