 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
 | Mary Grace Fickett - Trees in literature - 1902 - 208 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 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... | |
 | Paul Griswold Huston - Colerain (Hamilton County, Ohio : Township) - 1906 - 376 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." Who shall, asks Bryant also, speaking of his future forest, " Who... | |
 | Paul Griswold Huston - 1906 - 378 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." Who shall, asks Bryant also, speaking of his future forest, " Who... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Arbor Day - 1909 - 400 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; By all... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1915 - 416 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 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... | |
 | Arthur Mee - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 690 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... | |
 | Trees - 1924 - 40 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... | |
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