| 1846 - 608 pages
...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...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 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...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
...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...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,... | |
| 1853 - 560 pages
...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...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,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...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...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,... | |
| 1884 - 882 pages
...of the woods, or what seemed like si1 "That's tiie wise thrush: he sings each song twice over, Lent you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture 1 '' lence, was really impressive. The chewinks and field sparrows were singing, but it was like the... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...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...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 Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 372 pages
...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...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,... | |
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