 Thrice twenty summers 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...  Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum - Page 1959by John Claudius Loudon - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...fruitless solitude, Sinee childhood in my pleasant bower . First spent its sweet and sportive hour, Sinee youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and...; 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 ground By all... | |
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my rustling [pleasant] bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture paid [mode ;] And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name. Oh I by the vows... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1852 - 564 pages
...wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers...; 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 ground, By all... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour, Since youthful lovers...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 breath'd upon this sacred... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers...; And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name. 0 ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred ground ; 292... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 pages
...wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour, Since youthful lovers...; 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 ground ; By... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...summers I have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude— Since childhood in my rustling bower Pirst spent 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... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Dreams - 1856 - 296 pages
...summers I have stood In bloomless fruitless solitude ; Since childhood in my rustling bower First spent 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 Carved many a long-forgotten name; Oh ! by the vows of gentle... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1859 - 424 pages
...wintry wind have stood In blcosnless, fruitless solitude, Sincaehildhood in my pleasant bower Fust spent its sweet and sportive hour, Since youthful lovers...shade Their vows of truth and rapture made ; And on my trunk'slsurviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...bloomleRs, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my nestling bower Firdt spent it* sweet and cportive hour, Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture paid. And on my trunk's surviving frame, Carved many a long-forgotten name. Oh, by the vows of gentle... | |
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