 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...grateful Science still adores Her Heury's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose ilow'rs among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1838 - 144 pages
...portfolio will be answered. SKETCHES. LETTER I. " All happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah field* beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! 1 feel the gales, that from you blow, A momentary bliss bestow." You request me, my dear friend,... | |
 | Arts - 1842 - 410 pages
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 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...way. Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales... | |
 | England - 1840 - 784 pages
...described this magnificent prospect in well-known lines: — ." From the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way." The north side of the terrace is constantly open to the public ; and this is by... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver- winding way. Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1840 - 164 pages
...scenes where his early youth was passed, breaks out in the genuine language of poetry and of nature : "Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! "Ah, fields...belov'd in vain ! "Where once my careless childhood etray'd, '•A stranger yet to pain ! "I feel the gales that from you blow "A momentary bliss bestow... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1840 - 722 pages
...was ready to exclaim with the poet, • " Ah, happy courts! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain I I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My... | |
 | Lady - 1840 - 856 pages
...new impulse, the glorious prospect which burst at once upon her view " Of grove, of lawn, of mead, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way;" drew forth expressions of almost wild delight, and proved that her young heart... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 658 pages
...to those who stand on the terrace : " And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights, the expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose...flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way." But such a mead ! such turf! such shade! " Father Thames" mi^ht be compared to... | |
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A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. 
