 Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2711809Full view - About this book
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, [fume; Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perFar dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yelloiy broom. 'TWASNA HER BONNIE BLUE EE. 85 Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - English fiction - 1822 - 308 pages
...with Burns, to say , " Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green brechan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom: Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...the Humours of Glen : " Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone...lowly unseen ; For there lightly tripping amang the sweet flowers, A listening the linnet, oft wanders my Jean." " 'Twas that delightful season, when the... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 442 pages
...associating her with " the mountain nymph, sweet Liberty:" " Far dearer to me yon lone gleu of green breckan, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly, unseen ;...flowers, A listening the linnet aft wanders my Jean."§ And at the termination, the Caledonian " Wanders as free as the wind on hi* mountains, Save Love's... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green brckau, WT the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far...flowers, A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Though rich is the breeze in their gay sunny valleys, And cauld Caledonia's blast on the wave ; Their... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...! LXXXII. TUNE — Though Ldxlip is proud of iti clote-shady Bowers. THEI R groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under thelangyellowbroom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where theblne-belland gowan lurk... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...man's singing." Few such " old men" are BOW to be met with. CALEDONIA. Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green brekan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Floriculture - 1825 - 516 pages
...the Humours of Glen : " Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi'.the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. " Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...sweet bird, nae mair ! Or my poor heart is broken. TUNE—Humours of Glen. Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...flowers, A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Though rich is the breeze in their gay sunny valleys, And cauld Caledonia's blast on the wave; [palace,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...Tune—" Humors of Glen." THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume, Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi'the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where... | |
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