A response to this poem that reveals how the title character ";grew broad and red and stout,"; with ";native grace"; now seeming ";out of place,"; was written by Bret Harte.
A response to this poem that reveals how the title character ";grew broad and red and stout,"; with ";native grace"; now seeming ";out of place,"; was written by Bret Harte. A character in this poem imagines ";narrow kitchen walls"; stretching into ";stately halls"; and a ";weary wheel"; turning into a spinnet in a situation where ";joy was duty and love was law."; The thought of";sisters, proud and cold"; and ";mother, vain of her rank and gold"; causes a character in this poem to dispel his dreams of being ";a harvester of hay,"; only for him to later regret ";Ah, that I were free again!"; This poem describes a ";nameless longing"; sparked by an encounter with the title character, who ";on a summer's day / raked the meadows sweet with hay."; A judge encountersthe title country girl in, for 10 points, what poem that includes the couplet ";for all sad words of tongue or pen, / the saddest are these: ‗It might have been!'"; and was written by John Greenleaf Whittier?
A response to this poem that reveals how the title character ";grew broad and red and stout,"; with ";native grace"; now seeming ";out of place,"; was written by Bret Harte.
"Maud Muller"