 I have seen The sky grow bright, the forest green; And many a wintry wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour; Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 501806Full view - About this book
 | Malcolm M'Lachlan Harper - Galloway (Scotland) - 1876 - 336 pages
...sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers, in my shade, Their vows of truth and rapture made, And on niy trunk's surviving frame Carv'd many a long forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound First breathed upon this sacred ground — By all that love hath whisper'd here, Or Beauty heard with ravish'd... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour, Since youthful lovers in my shade 'd through vein, and nerve, and bone:' ' My in' .1 In i sent me from afa Carved many a long-forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made, And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 852 pages
...childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour; Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made • And on my trunk's surviving frame CarVd many a long-forgot len name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred ground ; By... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 pages
...childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour, Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made, And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name, Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Arbor Day - 1890 - 528 pages
...its sweet and sportive hour, Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture paid, And on my trunk's surviving frame Carv'd many a long forgotten name. Oh, by the vows of gentle sound First breathed upon this sacred ground, By all that Love hath whispered here,... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 302 pages
...childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made, And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - English poetry - 1890 - 530 pages
...childhood in my pleasant bower first spent its sweet and festive hour, since youthful lovers in my shade their vows of truth and rapture made, and on my trunk's surviving frame carved many a long-forgotten name, oh, by the sighs of gentle sound first breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made, And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | John Burroughs - American poetry - 1901 - 388 pages
...childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made ; And on my trunk's surviving frame Carv'd many a long-forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred ground ; 22... | |
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