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Banished from Massachusetts John Greenleaf Whittier	' One long gaze The goodwife turned on each familiar thing,- The lowing kine, the orchard blossoming, The open door that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Barclay Of Ury John Greenleaf Whittier	'When each goodwife, o'er and o'er, Blessed me as I passed her door; And the snooded daughter, Through her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cobbler Keezar's Vision John Greenleaf Whittier	Who brewed the stoutest ale, And he paid the goodwife's reckoning In the coin of song and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Extract From John Greenleaf Whittier	To his own mouth her bridle-bit; The goodwife's churn no more refuses Its wonted culinary uses Until, with heated needle burned, The witch...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How The Women Went From Dover John Greenleaf Whittier	From barn and woodpile the goodman came; The goodwife quitted her quilting frame, With her child at her breast; and, hobbling slow, The grandam...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mary Garvin John Greenleaf Whittier	The goodwife dropped her needles: 'It is twenty years to-day, Since the Indians fell on Saco, and stole...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Requiescit Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	'' So they remained For a brief space, the goodwife standing there Knotting her wrinkled hands and he hard by Upon the bed and breathing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song of Diego Valdez Rudyard Kipling	The widow curbed and wan, The goodwife proud at season, And the maid aware of man -- All souls unslaked, consuming, Defrauded in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Barefooted Friar Sir Walter Scott	And the goodwife would wish the goodman in the mire, Ere he lack'd a soft pillow, the Barefooted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Changeling ( From The Tent on the Beach ) John Greenleaf Whittier	) Set his name to the jailer's warrant For Goodwife Cole's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Exiles. 1660 John Greenleaf Whittier	'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Homestead John Greenleaf Whittier	What goodwife sent the earliest smoke Up the great chimney...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nightmare before Christmas PJ Youngblood	My goodwife did mutter the sound of bird wings She ducked under his arm, while softly did sing, Words...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Witch of Wenham John Greenleaf Whittier	'And many a goodwife heard her speak By Wenham water words That made the buttercups take wings And turn to yellow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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