 And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows ! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise...  The Marlburian - Pagina 140door Marlborough coll - 1885Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pagina’s
...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Bound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the...careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower, —... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pagina’s
...the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush : he sings each song twice over Lest...careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, And will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower —... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 pagina’s
...the field, and scatters to the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest...careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower —... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1875 - 633 pagina’s
...the orchard bough In England — now !' The second verse is too charming to leave unquoted : — ' And after April, when May follows, And the white-throat...careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower —... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 472 pagina’s
...the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms, and dew-drops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! " 328 329 Having in mind Shakespeare and Shelley, I nevertheless think the last three lines the finest... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1896 - 568 pagina’s
...Austin's ' Defence of English Spring ; ' ' more poetic sense of a bird's song in the well-known lines ' Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...could recapture The first fine careless rapture,' 2 than in Mr. Austin's treatment of the same theme, respectable though it is : ' The thrush runs revelling... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pagina’s
...blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dcwdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise thrush...careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower, —... | |
 | 1876 - 806 pagina’s
...warning and instruction of the good men who seem now trembling on the verge of as great a mischief as ' That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! " — BROWNIJTO. that wrought by the Free Church movement in Scotland. The whole controversy seeirs... | |
 | Mrs. Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 502 pagina’s
...greenwood, When mavis and merle are singing ! " How true, again, that Shakespeare-touch of Brownipg's :— " That's the wise thrush, he sings each song twice over,...never could recapture, The first fine careless rapture ! " The thrush sang in May, according to the poet's lovely verse ; but this year the birds began long... | |
 | Mortimer Collins, Mrs. Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 308 pagina’s
...greenwood, When mavis and merle are singing ! " How true, again, that Shakespeare-touch of Browning's :— "That's the wise thrush, he sings each song twice...never could recapture, The first fine careless rapture ! " The thrush sang in May, according to the poet's lovely verse; but this year the birds began long... | |
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