Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough. In England... The Marlburian - Pagina 140door Marlborough coll - 1885Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1846 - 608 pagina’s
...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-treo bole are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on the...whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossom'd pear-tree in th*" hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dew-drops,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pagina’s
...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood eheaf Round the elm-treo bob; are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on the...whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossom'd pear-tree in thehedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dew-drops,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pagina’s
...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the...Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture... | |
| 1853 - 560 pagina’s
...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest houghs and the hrush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree hole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the...Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pagina’s
...hrushwood sheaf Bound the elm-tree hole are in tiny leaf, While the cha(finch sings on the orchard hough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat huilds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my hlossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field... | |
| 1888 - 928 pagina’s
...with me. " Yes, I will be brave and tell him," I resolved. But just then he began to quote : — " ' Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...clover Blossoms and dew-drops at the bent spray's " I cannot tell him now," I thought. He had thrown himself on the grass by my side, and was lazily... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pagina’s
...Possibly — but this is subsequent imagining — the lines were from ' Home Thoughts from Abroad ' : Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — ' This,' said his hostess, in introducing her, ' is the sender of the pear-blossom.' ' I stripped... | |
| England - 1860 - 532 pagina’s
...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now! II. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark !... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1862 - 804 pagina’s
...Kees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Bound the elm-tree hole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! " " You nave forgotten the gem of the piece," Lancelot added, — " the tribute to the mavis. 1 That's... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pagina’s
...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf; While the chaffinch sings on the...whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge Leaves to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops... | |
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