 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - History - 1839 - 506 pages
...bright, and gay in his bridegroom trim — the sweet south shook the dew-drops from the budding trees ; " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest ; The birds sang love on every spray ;" and all nature wore that universal smile which the untranslatable expression of ^Eschylus so exquisitely... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1844 - 516 pages
...sun was clear, bright, and gay — the sweet south shook the dewdrops from the budding trees — " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every sray." But then we marked not this : the hunt, the buffalo was all we saw, or cared to see. Mine was... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 334 pages
...humane: What a flattering idea, then, is the world to come ! Would to God I as firmly believed it, as The flowers sprang 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...grées; j The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd am'rous round the raptur d seen* ; The flow'rs f anything ; he «aw that even in the company of folly a wise man might sit down and be wtified. Out of Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. IV. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods... | |
 | John Wilson - 1840 - 372 pages
...deposited. With the " Ayr gurgling kiss'd hi« pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods thick'ning gr«'n : The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous...the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be press'd, The birds fang love on every spray, Till too, too soon the glowing west Froclaim'd the speed... | |
 | Gardening - 1900 - 550 pages
...poems, " To Mary in Heaven " : — " Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thick'ning green ; The fragrant Birch, and Hawthorn...glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day." Nothing is more beautiful to me at this season of sunlight and profuse vegetation than the picturesque... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1841 - 354 pages
...editor of the Dumfries Courier, and brother of the lamented author of ' Lives of British Statesmen.' " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...on 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 fopdly broods with... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...Coilsfield on his fancy : — " Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild-woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined...scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birda sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim 'd the speed of winged... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - Azores - 1841 - 506 pages
...bright, and gay in his bridegroom trim — the sweet south shook the dew-drops from the budding trees ; " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest ; The birds sang love on every spray ;" and all nature wore that universal smile which the untranslatable expression of ^Eschylus so exquisitely... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...woods, thickening, green; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd, amorous, round the raptur'd scene, The flowers sprang, wanton, to be prest, The...on every spray, Till too, too soon the glowing west Proclaim'tl the speed of winged day. 2 Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappear'd Into thin... | |
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Eternity will not efface those records dear of transports past; thy image at our last embrace — ah! little thought we 'twas our last! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, o'erhung with wild woods... 
