 OH, to be in England now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England —...  Poet's Walk: An Introduction to English Poetry - Page 260by Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1846 - 608 pages
...England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-treo bole are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on...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 Blossoms and dew-drops,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood eheaf Round the elm-treo bob; are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on 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 and dew-drops,... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...But NOW — the experienced Spirit old Turns all the leaden past to gold ! liAIHiY COKXWALI" from i. OH ! to be in England Now that April's there, And...chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now! II. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark !... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man ? WORDSWORTH. flonu %ugj}is OH, to be in England, Now that April's there, And...whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge Leaves to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...will hold your hand but as long as all may, Or so very little longer ! HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD. i. OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever...chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! ii. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 pages
...their writings. Here again his power of minute observation helps him. The following poem is called " Home Thoughts from Abroad." Oh, to be in England Now...boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bolo are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now. And after... | |
 | 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
...the writer on English ground, where we should like to meet with him oftener : — HOME-THOUGHTS FBOM ABROAD. ' Oh, to be in England Now that April's there,...boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole arc in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! % And after April,... | |
 | 1865 - 610 pages
...the writer on English ground, where we should like to meet with him .oftener : — HOME-THOUGHTS FEOM ABROAD. ' Oh, to be in England Now that April's there,...unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Eound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England... | |
 | 1874 - 968 pages
...Tennyson could have written them. Then comes Robert Browning, singing far away under Italian skies — " Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there ; And...on the orchard bough In England now ! " And after all it comes to this, poet or no poet — we all of us, who have any poetry in our nature, any touch... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...into ringing, With a bee in every bell, 25 Almond bloom, we greet thee well. Edwin Arnold. CCLXXXVIII HOME THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD. Oh to be in England Now...unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf 5 Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough, In England,... | |
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