A stately pilgrim, watched by all the hills. Say, shall we wander where, through warriors' graves, The infant Yewden, mountain-cradled, trills Her doric notes ? Or, where the Locksley raves Of broil and battle, and the rocks and caves Dream yet of ancient... The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott - Pàgina 62per Ebenezer Elliott - 1840 - 179 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Ebenezer Elliott - 1829 - 228 pàgines
...bounteous earth her od'rous flowers, and builds The nightingale, in beauty's fairest land. ;,• in. Five rivers, like the fingers of a hand, Flung from...black mountains, mingle, and are one, Where sweetest vallies quit the wild and grand, And eldest forests, o'er the silvan Don, Bid their immortal brother,... | |
| Ebenezer Elliott - 1831 - 212 pàgines
...All bounteous earth her od'rous flowers, and builds The nightingale, in beauty's fairest land. in. Five rivers, like the fingers of a hand, Flung from...black mountains, mingle, and are one. Where sweetest vallies quit the wild and grand. And eldest forests, o'er the silvan Don, Bid their immortal brother.journey... | |
| Ebenezer Elliott - 1834 - 304 pàgines
...yields All bounteous earth her odorous flower, and builds The nightingale, in beauty's fairest land. Five rivers, like the fingers of a hand, Flung from...black mountains, mingle, and are one Where sweetest vallies quit the wild and grand, And eldest forests, o'er the silvan Don, Bid their immortal brother... | |
| George Calvert Holland - 1843 - 288 pàgines
...and the exquisite scenery which they embellish, and from which they borrow much of their own beauty. Five rivers, like the fingers of a hand, Flung from...black mountains, mingle, and are one Where sweetest vallies quit the wild and grand, And eldest forests, o'er the silvan Don, Bid their immortal brother... | |
| British empire - 1847 - 812 pàgines
...found on the Sheaf and the Don, with the tributary streams of the Rivelin, the Loxley, and the Eden : " Five rivers, like the fingers of a hand, Flung from...one Where sweetest valleys quit the wild and grand." The low buildings are let off to different grinders, each of whom has a trough, as it is called, where... | |
| John Watkins - 1850 - 296 pàgines
...feet upon his rock adored !' And then, perchance, ' O God ! on man look down ! ' " NATIVE RIVERS. " Five rivers, like the fingers of a hand, Flung from...quit the wild and grand And eldest forests, o'er the sylvan Don, Bid their immortal brother journey on, A stately pilgrim, watched by all the hills. Say,... | |
| 1850 - 534 pàgines
...down ! " ' We are glad to break away from these melancholy voices ; and lo, what is before us ! — ' Five rivers, like the fingers of a hand, Flung from black mountains, mingle, and arc one Where sweetest valleys quit the wild and grand, And eldest forests, o'er the sylvan Don, Bid... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 pàgines
...us ! — ' Five rivers, like the fingers of a band. Flung from black mountains, mingle, and arc ora Where sweetest valleys quit the wild and grand. And eldest forests, o'er the sylvan Don, Bid their immortal brother jonrney on, Л stately pilgrim, watched by all the hills. Say,... | |
| George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 328 pàgines
...the following description of these five rivers, alluded to by Hovvitt, in his " Village Patriarch." " Five rivers, like the fingers of a hand, Flung from...quit the wild and grand, And eldest forests, o'er the sylvan Don, Bid their immortal brother journey on, A stately Pilgrim, watched by all the hills. Say,... | |
| Ebenezer Elliott - 1853 - 298 pàgines
...woodbine of the fields ! Thou future treasure of the bee, that waits Gladly on thee, spring's harbinger ! when yields All bounteous earth her odorous flowers,...Say, shall we wander where, through warriors' graves, t \ The infant Yewden, mountain-cradled, trills Her doric notes ? Or, where the Locksley raves Of broil... | |
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