O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green, The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2671809Full view - About this book
| Theology - 1850 - 656 pages
...certainly suggested by this passage from the apostrophe of the earlier bard to his Mary in Heaven : " Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear." Lyrics are generally considered... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...thickening green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene : The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day. 118 MAIDENHOOD. Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...thickening green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined am'rous round the raptured scene ; The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray — Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
| Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...thick'ning green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd am'rous round the raptured scene; The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray — Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
| Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...thick'ning, green : The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west, Proclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
| English poetry - 1854 - 608 pages
...raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, Till too, too soon, the glowing west, Proclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my...wakes, And fondly broods with miser care! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. .My Mary, dear departed shade!... | |
| Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on ev'ry spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my...wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ! Time but th' impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary ! dear departed shade !... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...green. The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured seenfe ; The (lowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray. Till too. too soon, the glowing west I'roclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
| Ballads, Scots - 1854 - 356 pages
...wanton to be press'd, The birds sang love on ev'ry spray, Till too, too soon the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy blissful place of rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...thickening, green, The fragrant birch, and hawihorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene. ' The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray, Till loo, too soon, the glowing west Ptoclaim'd the speed of winged day ! " Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry... | |
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