 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
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...Where bright beaming summere exalt the perfume, Far dearer to me yon lose glen o' preen breckan, Wl' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far...me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell andgowan lurk lowly unseeni For there lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A listening the linnet,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1835 - 418 pages
...And tent the waving corn.wi' me. GROVES O' SWEET MYRTLE. ROBERT BURNS. Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, f Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers,... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1835 - 406 pages
...Broom, with yellow, white, and purple Howers. The first is the most common. Their graves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, \\i' the burn stealing under the lang yellow Broom. BUKNS. The wilding Broom as sweet, which gracefully... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...Tune—H Humours of Glen." Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon. Where hright-heaming summers exalt the perfume, Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green hreckan, Wi' the hurn stealing under the lang yellow hroom ; Far dearer to me are yon humhle hroom... | |
 | Gerald Griffin - Irish fiction - 1836 - 420 pages
...:— Their groves o' green myrtle let foreign lands reckon, < ' Where bright beaming simmers exult the perfume; -*'• Far dearer to me yon lone glen...Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom.; i " There she is, said the Major, with a delighted eye. Casting their eyes in that direction, they... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green bracken, Wi' the burn stealing under the long yellow broom ! Far dearer to me are yon humble broom...gowan lurk lowly unseen, For there, lightly tripping among the wild flowers, A' listening the linnet, oft wauders my Jean. Thus the heath, and the blue-bell,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 pages
...years came over me, and all the livelong day I was singing, solto voce— Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green bracken, Wi' the burn stealing under the long yellow broom! Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers,... | |
 | 1839 - 880 pages
...powers : — " Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers eialt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green...yellow broom : Far dearer to me are yon humble broom buwers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen ; . For there, lightly tripping amang the wild-flowers,... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...commences as follows : — "Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, When bright beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone...breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom.'1 Jean survived in decent widowhood for as long a time as that which formed the whole life of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 352 pages
...GLEN.' TIIEIH groves o' sweet myrtles let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt their perfume; far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan,...Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. t In May, 1795, Thomson said to Burns, the Irish Air, " Humours of Glen," is a great favourite of mine;... | |
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