 | 1804 - 450 pàgines
...i The primroses blow in the dew of the morning. And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair When the lingering moments are number'd with care ? Nor birds sweetly singing, nor flowers gaily spiinging, Can sooth the sad bosom... | |
 | Andrew M'Kenzie - 1810 - 194 pàgines
...•But pleasures that sweeten't life's morn, We ne'er can experience again ! MAY. INSCRIBED TO s " No birds sweetly singing, " Nor flowers gaily springing, " Can soothe the sad bosom of joyless despair." Bu RKS. THE op'ning buds, and blossoms gay, Proclaim the birth of rosy May — The bounding lambs delighted... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pàgines
...vale; The primroses blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair, When the lingering moments are number'd by care? No birds sweetly singing, nor flow'rs gaily springing, Can sooth the sad bosom of... | |
 | 1821 - 502 pàgines
...blow in the dews of the morning, And rg-^ij: ; £ •wild scatter'd cow-slips be--deck the green dale. But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair, When the lin - ger - ing moments are number'd with care ? Nor f si birds sweetly singing, nor flow'rs gai-ly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 414 pàgines
...hawthorn trees blow in the dews of the morning ; And wild scattered cowslips bedeck the green dale. But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair, When the lingerin' moments are numbered by care ? No flowers gaily springing, Or birds sweetly singing, Can... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 pàgines
...hawthorn trees blow in the dews of the morning ; And wild scattered cowslips bedeck the green dale. But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair, When the lingerin* moments are numbered by care? No flowers gaily springing, Or birds sweetly singing, Саз... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1861 - 372 pàgines
...hawthorn trees blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scattered cowslips bedeck the green dale. But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair, When the lingering moments are numbered by care, No flowers gaily springing, Or birds sweetly singing, Can soothe the sad bosom of joyless... | |
 | 1872 - 638 pàgines
...hawthorn trees blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scattered cowslips bedeck the green dale. But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair, When the lingering moments are numbered by care, No flowers gaily springing, Or birds sweetly singing, Can soothe the sad bosom of joyless... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 290 pàgines
...The primroses blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale : But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair, When the lingering moments are numbered wi' care ? No birds sweetly singing, nor flow'rs gaily springing, Can soothe the sad bosom of joyless... | |
 | Gilbert Samuel Macquoid - 1888 - 574 pàgines
...The primroses blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale : But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair, When the lingering moments are numbered wi' care ? No birds sweetly singing, nor flow'rs gaily springing, Can soothe the sad bosom of joyless... | |
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The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning, The murmuring streamlet winds clear thro' the vale; The primroses blow in the dews of the morning, And wild... 
