SWALLOW The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and, beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath, of May. Beachy Head: With Other Poems - Page 79by Charlotte Smith - 1807 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1807 - 616 pages
...were approaching: then at night ,v He listen 'd to the wind ; and as it drove The billo He, starti The oaks are budding ; and beneath, The hawthorn soon...of settled Spring, The Swallow too is come at last; )ws with o erwhclmiitg vehemence Just at sun-set, when thrushes siug. ing from his rugg.-d couch, went... | |
| 1807 - 608 pages
...\V hen tempests wcreapprmchinc: then at night He listcifd to the wind ; and as ¡t drove The o»ks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear...of settled Spring, The Swallow too is come at last; A-id hoarding a lif,, ,on ,llm.le,f lie waded thro' thu waves, wilk |,lank or ... p' rowards where... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...BY CHARLOTTE SMITH. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are СаУ. The oaks are budding ; and beneath, The hawthorn soon...come at last : Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, 1 saw her dash with rapid wing1, And hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitant, attach To my... | |
| Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1825 - 472 pages
...but cnangeful brow. * Tump — signifies a little rising ground, an hillock. The Swallow. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers...will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. The felcome guest of settled Spring, The Swallow too is come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing,... | |
| James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...particularly at that season, When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear; or when, farther on, The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers...The oaks are budding, and beneath, The hawthorn soon shall bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May.t In this genus is the medlar (Mespilus germanica),... | |
| Elizabeth Washington Wirt - American literature - 1832 - 338 pages
...furze Enriched among its spines, with golden flowers, Scents the keen air. Charlotte Smith. The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay. Some. The purple heath, and golden broom, Which scent the passing gale. Montgomery. BUTTER CUP. /ii/iwin... | |
| John Jacob - Botany - 1836 - 374 pages
...Charlotte Smith thus alludes to it in her enumeration of the symptoms of approaching spring : The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay ; The oak is budding, and beneath, The hawthorn soon will wear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. A white... | |
| Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...water, now rise to the surface, and express their vivacity by a thousand playful sallies." " The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers...settled spring, The swallow, too, is come at last ; At sun-set, when the thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hail'd her as she pass'd.... | |
| 318 pages
...The furze IB yellow on the h«ith, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks arc buddinp, and beneath The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. TUB year has now entirely shaken offthetraces of Winter, and begins to revel in sunshine and floral... | |
| 1850 - 560 pages
...sloe has here and there whitened the hedge-rows with its attractive bloom, " The oaks are bndding, and beneath The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath,— The silver wreath of May." Most of the migratory birds return to our isle this month, and among them none are more gladly welcomed... | |
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