 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 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 ; trees.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent ile long-forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred ground: By... | |
 | Malcolm M'Lachlan Harper - Galloway (Scotland) - 1876 - 336 pages
...stood In bloomless, fruitless, solitude, Since childhood, in my rustling bower, First spent its sweets and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers, in my shade, Their vows of truth and rapture made, And on niy trunk's surviving frame Carv'd many a long forgotten name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound First... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Flowers - 1877 - 270 pages
...summers have I 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 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 ; trees.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 852 pages
...wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour; Since youthful lovers...rapture made • And on my trunk's surviving frame CarVd many a long-forgot len name. Oh ! by the sighs of gentle sound, First breathed upon this sacred... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 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 —... | |
 | Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - Agriculture - 1887 - 700 pages
...has been carved. The poet Campbell tells it so beautifully: • " Thrice twenty summers have I stood, 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." And here is another beautiful... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1889 - 900 pages
...twenty Bummers have I stood, Since youthful lovera in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture paid, And, on my trunk's surviving frame, Carved many a long forgotten name." And here is another beautiful thing from Whittier : " I have always admired the taste of the Indians... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 302 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... | |
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