 | 1846 - 608 pages
...follows, And 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...never could re-capture The first fine careless rapture ! And though the fields are rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...And 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...never could re-capture The first fine careless rapture ! And though the fields are rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...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 pages
...England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...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 pages
...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 and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the hent spray's edge— That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think... | |
 | 1888 - 928 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...— now! II. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1862 - 804 pages
...the gem of the piece," Lancelot added, — " the tribute to the mavis. 1 That's the wise thrash— he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! ' But Browning," he went on, " is not an English poet. He has lived in Italy until he has forgotten... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 pages
...1 Most people, even if ignorant of the original, know of Browning's thrush who sang the same notes twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture. But in fact the thrush is very seldom content with singing the same notes twice. I have hoard him repeat... | |
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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... 
