 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 pages
...thousand ways, In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And I can listen to thee yet— Can lie upon the plain...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed bird ! the earth we pace • Again appears to be An unsubstantial, fairy place, That is fit... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed Bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit... | |
 | Sidney Gilpin - Ballads, English - 1866 - 586 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed Bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1866 - 344 pages
...hinges, and the quiet and solitary figure of Lady Vargrave threw its shadow over the grass. CHAPTER XIII. "And I can listen to thee yet, Can lie upon the plain...listen till I do beget That golden time again."— WCBDSWOKTH. IT was past midnight — hostess and guests had retired to repose — when Lady Vargrave's... | |
 | John R. Vernon - Christian life - 1867 - 338 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed-for, never seen. " And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again." Ah well, I must get on to my moral. I must not wail like an Autumn wind among the young flowers, and... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed-for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet, Can lie upon the plain...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed Bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...whom in my school-boy days I listened to ; that cry • Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, in tree, and sky. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. The cuckoo is one of the most remarkable of our periodical bird-visitants, not only because of the... | |
 | Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longe,l for, never seen. And can I listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. 0 blessed bird! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit home... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen! And I can listen to thee yet ; 25 Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. 0 blessed bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be 30 An unsubstantial, fairy place That is fit... | |
 | William Lloyd Baily - Birds - 1869 - 272 pages
...heart some memory of the past ? and is ready to exclaim : "And I can listen to thee yet And lie npon the plain; And listen till I do beget That golden time again." Birds are ever around us : — their busy active life displays itself wherever we turn our steps :... | |
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The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen.... 
