 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
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 328 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...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... | |
 | William Sharp - 1890 - 258 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...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... | |
 | 1890 - 260 pages
...different from the Italian, just at those best days of the year, when showery April meets with sunny May, " And after April, when May follows, And the white-throat...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... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...on the scaffold in consequence. " Home-Thoughts from Abroad" contains that exqul site picture, — " And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat...blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field anil scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...England—now I And after April, when May follows, And the white throat builds, and all the swallows I Hark where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...the field 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... | |
 | William Sharp - 1890 - 260 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 builds, and all the swallows ! Hark, where ray blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops... | |
 | 1890 - 880 pages
...Round the elm-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 builds, and all the swallows." But all this to a Colonist born and bred in the country must be meaningless when April marks with him... | |
 | 1890 - 542 pages
...'Italy'. Such lovers old are I and she, So it always was, so it still shall be." — De G us t ¡bus. MAY. And after April, when May follows, And the white-throat builds, and all the swallow*. Hark! wfiere my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1891 - 422 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! n. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat...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... | |
 | Henry Arthur Bright - 1891 - 144 pages
...we need. Can anything be truer, or better said, than these lines cf Browning's about a thrush ?— " Hark! where my blossomed Pear-tree in the hedge Leans...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... | |
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