 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
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1863 - 552 pages
...bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my nestling bower First spent its sweet and sportive how, 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... | |
 | Juvenile verse and picture book - 1866 - 130 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. As Love's own altar honour me, Spare, woodman, spare the Beechen-tree ! |F thou... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...bloomless, fruitless solitude, * Ireland my Darling. 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...wind have stood in bloomless, fruitless solitude, since childhood in my pleasant bower first spent its sweet and sportive hour, since youthful lovers...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 ground; by... | |
 | 1866 - 524 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 breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1866 - 506 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 breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 pages
...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 ; • This OJo was written In Germany at tlie dux: of the year 180ft tiefore the conclusion of... | |
 | Henry Walker (F.G.S.) - London (England) - 1871 - 160 pages
...That sleeping lies in a deep glade, Under a broad beech's shade. The Faithful Shepherdta.— FLETCHER. Youthful lovers in my shade, Their vows of truth and...on my trunk's surviving frame, Carved many a long forgotten-name. The Seech Tree's Petition. — CAMPBELL. O Rosalind, these trees shall be my books,... | |
 | 1873 - 404 pages
...have Blood In Ы oo :,, lrs ¡, fruitless solitude ; Since childheod in my pleasant bower Pirst spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers...shade Their vows of truth and rapture made, And on щy trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name," The beech is a native of England, but... | |
 | Gardening - 1875 - 416 pages
...have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude. Bince childhood in my pleasant bower First spent it« sweet and sportive hour; Since youthful lovers In...surviving frame Carved many a long forgotten name. Oh Ï by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred ground ; By all that love has whlsper'd... | |
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