 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pągines
...vocal harmony To stay the wanderer's steps and soothe his thoughts. r. YEW-TREES. THERE is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single,...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths... | |
 | 1846 - 429 pągines
...Cockermouth road is entered, near the Yew-tree which Wordsworth has celebrated. " There !sa Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore. Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they march'd To Scotland's heaths... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1846 - 318 pągines
...admirers of Mr. Wordsworth's poetry, for a large and ancient yew tree. The poet thus apostrophizes it:— pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single,...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Perey, ere they march'd To Scotland's heaths... | |
 | Sylvan (pseud.) - 1847 - 306 pągines
...Yew Tree, which has been made memorable by Wordsworth's well known eulogy, in which he calls it the " Pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heaths;... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1849 - 228 pągines
...the Keswick and Cockermouth road : this is about four miles from Scale Hill. ' There is a yew-tree, pride of Lorton vale, Which to this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heaths... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1850 - 340 pągines
...Cockermouth road is entered, near the Yewtree which Wordsworth has celebrated. " There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale. Which to this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Sot loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they march'd To Scotland's heaths... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 236 pągines
...The great philosopher and poet of Nature, Wordsworth, has some lines finely descriptive of the yew. " There is a yew tree, pride of Lorton vale, Which to...single in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood in the days of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of Umfraville or Percy, as they marched... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pągines
...As if they scorned both resting-place and rest! YEW-TREES. Tiir.itK is a Yew-tree, pride of Ix>rton may now be called a peaceful grave. Not loth to furnish weapons for the Rands Of Hmfnivillc or Percy nrn they imrched 'I'o Scotland's Heaths;... | |
 | 1853 - 390 pągines
...unrivalled poetical description of extraordinary yew trees, we are indebted to the muse of Words worth : — There is a yew tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to...ere they marched To Scotland's heaths, or those that cross'd the sea, And drew their sounding bows at Azincour ; Perhaps of early Cressy — or Poictiers.... | |
 | Woodland gleanings - 1853 - 287 pągines
...also of four others — the "fraternal four," — growing in Borrowdale : — There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single,...darkness, as it stood of yore, Nor loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Omfraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heath ; or those that crossed... | |
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There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that... 
