 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 thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Pagina 498geredigeerd door - 1846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pagina’s
...And the white-throat 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 thrush : he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1875 - 633 pagina’s
...And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows ! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms...first fine 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 472 pagina’s
...the white-throat 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 dew-drops — 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... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1896 - 568 pagina’s
...poetic sense of a bird's song in the well-known lines ' Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms...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...first fine 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 376 pagina’s
...the white-throat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms...first fine 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... | |
 | Henry Arthur Bright - 1879 - 142 pagina’s
...than these lines of Browning's about a thrush : — " Hark ! where my blossomed Pear tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters on the clover Blossoms...could recapture The first fine careless rapture." But there is one bird dearer to us than the thrush, and that is the swallow, which for some years past... | |
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