 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
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...CHARLES SPRAGUH. 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...guest of settled spring, The swallow too is come at lost ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed.... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 370 pages
...deputation. 15o 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 will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. 5 * gorse. Ulex Europxus, Gorse-Furze, called so in many counties of England. t speedwell. Veronica... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - European literature - 2006 - 412 pages
...bird and flower poems: 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. (Note the gentle pun on May as both month and hawthorn-blossom.) The welcome guest of settled Spring,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...CHARLES SPRAGUE. THE SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, would seem As if God poured thee from his hollow hand, And hung ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed.... | |
 | 1862 - 692 pages
...FIRST SWALLOW. BY 0. SMITH. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and, beneath, The hawthorn soon...welcome guest of settled Spring, The swallow, too, has come at last; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hail'd her... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1850 - 426 pages
...THB FIRST SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath ; The banks with speed- well flowers ore gay ; The oaks are budding, and beneath, The hawthorn soon...silver wreath of May. The welcome guest of settled spring1, The swallow, too, is come at last ; Jnst at sunset, when thrushes sing, 1 saw her dash with... | |
 | Eliza Randall Simmons Bailey, John Matthews Manly - Spellers - 1908 - 120 pages
...va ri' e ty crum' ble sculp' tor u ni ver' si ty re flect' re write' re main' der re mark' a ble 95 The welcome guest 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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