 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...strain was sung* LAY OF THE IMPRISONED HUNTSMAN. "My hawk is tired of perch and hood, My idle grayhound loathes his food, My horse is weary of his stall,...I wish I were as I have been, Hunting the hart in forests green, With bended bow and bloodhound free, For that's the life is meet for me. "I hate to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...loathes his food, My horse is wcai'y of his stall, And I am sick of caiitixe thrall. I wish 1 were as 1 have been, Hunting the hart in forest green, With...bloodhound free, For that's the life is meet for me. l hate to learn the ebb of time, From yon dull1 steeple's drowsy chime, Or mark it as the sunbeams... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...o'erhung Her latticed bower, the strain was song. XXIV. 3Lan of tjie ïmprfsoncl) V-.п;: v.- - • " My hawk is tired of perch and hood, My idle greyhound loathes his food, . My horse 13 weary of his stall, And I am sick of captive thrall. I wish I were, as I have been, Hunting the... | |
 | 1854 - 356 pages
...Eleu loro. Never, oh, never ! THE CAPTIVE HUNTSMAN. SIB WALTEB SCOTT. From the " Lady of the Lake.' MY hawk is tired of perch and hood, My idle greyhound...I wish I were as I have been, Hunting the hart in forests green, With bended bow and bloodhound free, For that's the life is meet for me. I hate to learn... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1855 - 396 pages
...and me, Mary ! * Song of Norman in " The Lady of the Lake," canto third. THE IMPRISONED HUNTSMAN.* MY hawk is tired of perch and hood, My idle greyhound...forest green, With bended bow and bloodhound free, For that 's the life is meet for me. I hate to learn the ebb of time From yon dull steeple's drowsy chime,... | |
 | Charles Jacobs Peterson - 1855 - 352 pages
...assented with secret pleasure, and directly after wards Major Gordon took his leave. CHAPTER XI. THE RIDX I wish I were as I have been, Hunting the hart in forest green. With bended bow and bloodhound free, Tor that's the life is meet for me. — Scott. Gather the rose-buds while you may, Old Time is still... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...lie, Shut up from all the fair ereation offers ? Joanna Baillie's Etiueald. My hawk is tired of pereh and hood, My idle greyhound loathes his food, My horse is weary of his stall, And I am siek of eaptive thrall. I wish I were as I have been, Hunting the hart in forests green, With bended... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 pages
...turret that o'erhung Her latticed bower, the strain was sung. XXIV. Unit of llir Smprfsonrt Jl>imtsm,m " My hawk is tired of perch and hood, My idle greyhound loathes his food, Mv horse is weary of his stall, And I am sick of captive thrall. I wish I were, as I have been, Hunting... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...turret that o'erhung Her latticed bower, the strain was sung. XXIV. Eag of fi)t Smprutawrtr gjunWman " My hawk is tired of perch and hood, My idle greyhound...forest green, With bended bow and bloodhound free, For that 's the life is meet for me. I hate to learn the ebb of time, From yon dull steeple's drowsy chime,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 pages
...turret that o'erhung Her latticed bower, the strain was sung. lap of tlje Imprisoned huntsman. 24 ' My hawk is tired of perch and hood, My idle greyhound...I wish I were as I have been, Hunting the hart in forests green, With bended bow and bloodhound free, For that 's the life is meet for me. ' I hate to... | |
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I hate to learn the ebb of time, From yon dull steeple's drowsy chime, Or mark it as the sun-beams crawl, Inch after inch, along the wall. The lark was wont my matins... 
