 Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and 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 he never could recapture The...  The Sewanee Review - Page 4561916Full view - About this book
 | English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...leaf, •f. h tt z. While the chaffinch sings on the orchard-bough t£ C In England — now. II. S And after April, when May follows, .And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows ! AND AESCHYLUS, BECAUSE WH KRAI) HIS PLAYS." — R. BROWNING. "MEN ARE NOT ANGELS, NEITHER ARE THEY... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the white-throat...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 he never could re-capture... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows And the white-throat...Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush : he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! 2. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat...pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters to the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1875 - 633 pages
...the orchard bough In England — now !' The second verse is too charming to leave unquoted : — ' And after April, when May follows, And the white-throat...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 he never could recapture... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 472 pages
...frequent. When he paints nature, as in " Home Thoughts, from Abroad," how fresh and fine the landscape ! "And after April, when May follows, And the white-throat...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 he never could recapture... | |
 | Anne Thackeray Ritchie - 1875 - 594 pages
...sword for George, with which he nearly cut off Rhoda's head. CHAPTER III. TO OLD STREET BY THE LANES. And after April when May follows, And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows, . . And buttercups the little children's dower. —E. BEOWNINO. IN those days, as I have said, the... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough, In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat...the field, and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dcwdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1896 - 568 pages
...Austin's ' Defence of English Spring ; ' ' more poetic sense of a bird's song in the well-known lines ' Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...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 he never could recapture... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 376 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the white-throat...Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — 'That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could re-capture... | |
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