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Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908 [1854], This, that and the other. (Phillips, Sampson and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf655T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
AN IMPROMPTU. Where the maples nodded together, At the edge of the pathless wood, With a basket of ripe red berries, A sweet little maiden stood. Her hair was like shadows of sunset, Falling soft over meadows asleep, Or the earliest break of the morning Pouring gold upon hill-side and steep. The green leaves lay light on her forehead, As if wood-nymphs were crowning their queen; And the tremulous smile of the sunshine Slept warm on the tresses between; The blue-bells were nodding beside her, But her bright eyes were bluer to see, As they turned, with an innocent gladness, That fair summer morning, on me! Her cheeks wore the hue of ripe peaches The sunlight so often hath kissed, And her figure was light as the fairies That ride on the morning's blue mist! But her voice was like nothing, save Eden, And the musical breezes which blow Over meadows that sleep in the sunshine, Where never falls tempest or snow!
And she said, with her blue eyes uplifted, And a blush on her berry-brown cheek, “Will you show me the way, sir, to Ashley?” And her voice was so gentle and meek, That I caught to my heart the maiden, And sued her to be my wife; So I showed her the way to Ashley, And she shows me the way through life.
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908 [1854], This, that and the other. (Phillips, Sampson and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf655T]. |
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