 | 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... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - Azores - 1854 - 384 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 -ZEschylus so exquisitely... | |
 | English poetry - 1854 - 608 pages
...pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thick'ning, green : The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twiri'd am'rous round the raptur'd scene ; The flow'rs sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn, hoar, Twin'd am'rous round the raptur'd scene; The flow'rs sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love 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 fondly broods with... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...wild-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...every spray; Till too, too soon, the glowing west, Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods the miser-care; Time but th' impression... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1909 - 692 pages
...wild-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...every spray ; Till too, too soon, the glowing west, Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my meni'ry wakes, A careAnd fondly broods... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - Poets, Scottish - 1910 - 156 pages
...thought we, 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods' thickening green; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined...the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with wiser care! Time but the impression... | |
 | P. Fijn van Draat - English language - 1910 - 432 pages
...stanza can be read well: Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with íтШ woods, thickening green; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined...sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on ev'ry spray, Till too, too soon the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day. (To Mary in Heaven.)... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1910 - 974 pages
...wild 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...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... | |
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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... 
