 SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all...  Letters to 'The Times', 1884-1922 - Pagina 36door Thomas Case - 1927 - 284 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Roby Datta - 1909 - 386 pagina’s
...1908. .— An epitaph like this, perhaps, is worth more than a suffrage ! Remember Cowper's line- : "Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; <ir.ic.hil and useful all she... | |
 | 1910 - 298 pagina’s
...victories are o'er; And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave no more. 3/5 To A YOUNG LADY SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt...steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng: With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course; Graceful and useful all she does,... | |
 | 1910 - 528 pagina’s
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 | 1915 - 488 pagina’s
...That we may brag we hae a lass There's nane again sae bonny. Robert Burns [1759-1796] TO A YOUNG LADY SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt...steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng: With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course; Graceful and useful all she does,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1912 - 520 pagina’s
...English Versification of a Thought that popped into my Head about two Months since. Sweet stream I that winds through yonder glade — Apt emblem of...steals along, Far from the world's gay, busy throng ; With gentle, yet prevailing force. Intent upon hei destin'd course : VOL. I f Graceful, and useful,... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - 1913 - 104 pagina’s
...victories are o'er; And he and his eight hundred 35 Shall plough the wave no more. TO A YOUNG LADY SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt...steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng: With gentle yet prevailing force, 8 Intent upon her destined course; Graceful and useful all she does,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 pagina’s
...Shrubbery, to which reference was made above ; the other, the lines ' addressed to a young lady' beginning Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid! a poem which equals the best achievements of Wordsworth or Byron in the same field. In connection with... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 pagina’s
...Shrubbery, to which reference was made above; the other, the lines "addressed to a young lady" beginning Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid! a poem which equals the best achievements of Wordsworth or Byron in the same field. In connection with... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 pagina’s
...Few competitions but engender spite, And those the most where neither has a right. TO A YOUNG LADY Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt...steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng: With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course; Graceful and useful all she does.... | |
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