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. The Universal magazine - Page 2281807Full view - About this book
| Emma Newby - 1866 - 360 pages
...CHAPTEB XXV. The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speed-well flowers are gay ; The oats are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath — The silver wreath of May. CHARLOTTE SMITH. MAKION sat down trembling with excitement, when after they were gone, and she had... | |
| Nature - 1867 - 80 pages
...turfy grave. THE SWALLOW. HE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding ; and beneath, The hawthorn soon...of settled Spring, The Swallow too is come at last; Just at sun-set, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hail'd her as she pass'd.... | |
| E. Wadham - English language - 1869 - 176 pages
...falls to three beats only. 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. — CHARLOTTE SMITH. In the following, lines two and five are alike short. How sweet the answer Echo... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1870 - 208 pages
...conceit.' THE FIRST SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speed- well flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and beneath. The hawthorn soon...settled spring, The swallow, too, is come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with ra.pid wing, And hailed her as she passed.... | |
| Charles Leeson Prince - Climatic changes - 1871 - 270 pages
...Flora sickens." Spril. " The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and beneath The hawthorn soon...settled spring, The swallow, too, is come at last, Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...and beneath, The hawthorn soon vill bear the wreath, The silver wreath oí Hay. POEMS OF NATURE. 347 emed Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight : For surer sign had follow ; Just at sunset, when thrushes siug, I saw lier dash with rapid wing, And hailed her aa she Come,... | |
| Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...1749—1806. THE SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon...settled Spring, The swallow, too, is come at last; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come,... | |
| American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...RSS ANDROS. THE SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, eX A oí May. 346 347 The welcome guest of settled spring, The swallow too is come at lust ; Just at simset,... | |
| Samuel Manning - English poetry - 1880 - 260 pages
...THE FIRST SWALLOW. yR ppHE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and beneath, The hawthorn soon...settled Spring, The swallow, too, is come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...CHARLES SPRAGUE. THE SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding ; and beneath, The hawthorn soon...of settled spring, The swallow too is come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed.... | |
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