 I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me. For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And everything...  Reading-literature - Page 319by Harriet Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free, Thomas Henry Briggs, Henry William Shryock - 1918Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...since my playmates left! I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Whicli the piper also promised me; For he led us, he said,...fruit-trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And every thing was strange and new ; The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here, And their dogs outran... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...sadness, he was used to say, " It's dull in our town since my playmates left ; I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which...the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And every thing was strange and new ; The sparrows... | |
 | 302 pages
...he vras used to say, — " It's dull in our town since my playmates left ! " I can't forget that I'm bereft " Of all the pleasant sights they see " Which..."For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, " Joining tho town and just at hand, „ Where wateis gushed and fruitrtrees grew, . And flowers put forth a... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...sadness, he was used to say, — "It's dull in our town since my playmates left ! I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which...promised me ; For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, J oining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew, And flowers put forth... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1865 - 736 pages
...he was used to say, — " It's dull in our town since my playmates left I " I can't forget that I'm bereft " Of all the pleasant sights they see, " Which the Piper also promised me. " For he led us, ho said, to a joyous land, " Joining the town and just at hand, • " Where waters gushed and fruit-trees... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 192 pages
...sadness, he was used to say, " It's dull in our town siuce my playmates left ; I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which...promised me ; For he led us, he said, to a joyous laud, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew, And flowers put... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1868 - 422 pages
...bereft Of all the pleasant sigits ibey see. \\"hich the piper also proir.ised me : For he led us. be said, to a joyous land. Joining the town, and just at hand. Where waters gush'd. and fruit-trees grew. And flowers put forth a fairer hue. And every thing was strange and new... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...sadness, he was used to say : " It's dull in our town since my playmates left 1 I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which...fruit-trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And every thing was strange and new ; The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here, And their dogs outran... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 pages
...sadness, he was used to say, — " It's dull in our town since my playmates left I I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which...the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And everything was strange and new ; The sparrows... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1868 - 432 pages
...his settled melancholy — " It's dull in our town since my playmates left ; I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which...land, Joining the town, and just at hand, Where waters gush'd, and fruit-trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And every thing was strange and new... | |
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