 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
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...Tun*—" Humonrs 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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perFar dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi* the bum stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A-listening... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...Scottish song-writer was not habitually negligent of his numbers : — " Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me you lone glen o' green brcckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me... | |
 | Frances Sargent Osgood - Flower language - 1848 - 308 pages
...as his own. Burns introduces the yellow broom in his "Caledonia:" — Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. It is said that when Linnaeus came to England, in 1736, he was so much delighted with the golden bloom... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1873 - 686 pages
...conclude my paper with averse from one of our sweetest Scotch songs : — Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume, Far dearer to me is lone glen o' green brecken, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom ; Far dearer to me... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1848 - 414 pages
...first is the most common. Their graves <i' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, wr the burn stealing under the lang yellow Broom. BURNS. The wilding Broom as sweet, which gracefully... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...seek in other spheres That heaven I'd find within thy bosom. CALEDONIA. THKIH groves О sweet myrtles let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o* green breckan, With the burn btealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me yon humble broom bowers, Where... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...sweet pastoral verses — 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 bracken, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me yon humble broom bowers,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...TIIEIK groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, [perfume. Where bright-beaming summers exalt the Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi'...bowers. Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : [flowers, For there, lightly tripping among the wild A-Ustening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1865 - 236 pages
...Castle-Gordon. THEIR GROVES O' SWEET MYRTLE. TUNE— Humours of Glen. THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, [Jean. A'-listening the linnet, aft wonders my 3 m Tho' rich is the breeze in their gay sunny valleys,... | |
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