 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...praise : My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where...woodlands the primroses blow ; There oft, as mild evening sweeps over the lea, The sweet.scented birk shades my Mary and me." It was in the spring of the same... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...followeth, for the latter part of January, primrose», anemonies, the early tulip. Bacon'i Essayi. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below. Where...lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Burnt. PRIMROSE, in botany. See PRIMULA. PRIMULA, the primrose, a genus of the ;he first born, monogynia... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 356 pages
...neighbouring hills, Far mark'd with the courses of clear-winding rills ; There daily I wander, as morn rises high, My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my...woodlands the primroses blow ; There oft, as mild evening creeps o'er the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 408 pages
...neighbouring hills, Far mark'd with the courses of clear-winding rills ; There daily I wander, as morn rises high, My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my...woodlands the primroses blow ; There oft, as mild evening creeps o'er the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and ine. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...continued). How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills, Far mark'd with the courses of clear -winding rills : There daily I wander, as noon rises high,...lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. waters. — 3, 4. Hither wandering (devius), when the sun holds the mid sky in his course, I oft seek... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...den, Thou green-crested lapwing thy screaming forbear, I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair. There daily I wander as noon rises high, My flocks...sweet cot in my eye. How pleasant thy banks and green vallies below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow : Theie, oft as mild evening weeps over... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1830 - 340 pages
...praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blowThere oft, as mild evening sweeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. "... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hula, Far mark'd wi' the courses of clear, winding rills; There daily I wander as noon rises high, My...shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lofty it glides. And winds by the cot where my Mary resides ; How wanton thy waters her snowy leet... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...hills, Far mart'd w'l the courses of clear, winding rills; There daily I wander as noon rises high, Illy flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye. How pleasant...There, oft as mild evening weeps over the lea, The «weet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Anon, how lovely it glides, And winds... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills, Far mark'd with the courses of clear, winding rills ; There daily I wander as noon rises high, My...sweet cot in my eye. How pleasant thy banks and green volleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow ; There oft as mild ev'ning weeps over... | |
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Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides ; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet flow'rets she stems thy clear wave. 
