My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news... Poems - Page 118by James Russell Lowell - 1849Full view - About this book
| Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pages
...blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, — and of a sky above, Where one light cloud like a stray lamb doth move. My childhood's...Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang cheerily all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, 1 prow — the forepart or cut-water of a galley... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 592 pages
...blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodbind gap, and of a sky above, Where one while cloud like a stray lamb doth move, My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thce; The sight of the« calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door,... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1881 - 214 pages
...in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, — of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, — and of a sky above, Where one...heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers." This... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1881 - 222 pages
...in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, — of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, — and of a sky above, Where one...heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers." This... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pages
...in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, — of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, — and of a sky above, Where one...thoughts are linked with thee ; The sight of thee calls hack the robin's song, )V lm, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long. And... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...Or whiten in the wind; of waters blue, That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap; mid of a sky above, Where one white cloud like a stray...earliest thoughts are linked with thee; The sight of thoo rails back the robin's song, Who, frcim the dark old tree Beside the door, sang cliuirly all day... | |
| Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind — of waters blue, That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap — and of a sky above, Where one...Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang dearly all day long. And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 pages
...in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, — of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, — and of a sky above, Where one...secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an nngel sing With news from heaven, which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds... | |
| Alpheus Baker Hervey - 1885 - 234 pages
...in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, — of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, — and of a sky above, Where one...song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door sung clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With... | |
| 1886 - 552 pages
...in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, — of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, — and of a sky above, Where one...move. My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thec ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door,... | |
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