 | Charles R W. Watkins - 1874 - 180 pages
...intervals; but corresponsive and harmonious to each other in both metre and rhyme by pairs. In one stanza. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands, the primroses grow ; Where oft as the evening weeps o'er the lee, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. —... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 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 flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye. 3 Mary Campbell, so well known as the poet's " Highland Mary." How pleasant thy banks and green valleys... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 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...the woodlands the primroses blow ; There oft as mild ev'ning weeps over the lea. The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton,... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 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...the woodlands the primroses blow ; There oft as mild ev'ning weeps over the lea. The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 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 flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye. * The only other of his earlier loved ones to whom this passage could possibly apply, is Ellison Begbie—circa,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pages
...fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills, Far marked with the course"-, of clear winding rills ; There daily I wander as noon rises high, My...the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and roe. TI1R HIGHLAND LASSIE. How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet flowerets... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills, Far marked with the coursesof clearwinding rills ! There daily I wander as noon rises high, My...primroses blow ! There oft as mild evening weeps over the len, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1877 - 116 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...the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild ev'ning weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...clear-winding rills 1 There daily I wander as noon rises high, My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye. 4 How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where...mild evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birch shades my Mary and me. 5 Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pages
...slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills, Far marked with the courses of clearwinding rills ! There daily I wander as noon rises high, My...me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, t And winds by the cot where my Mary resides ; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gath'ring... | |
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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. 
