 | 1853 - 394 pàgines
...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 this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Nor loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of Umphraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heaths,... | |
 | Woodland gleanings - 1853 - 306 pàgines
...in Lorton Vale ; and also of four others — the "fraternal four," — growing in Borrowdale : — There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to...the midst Of its own 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... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1858 - 376 pàgines
...Cockermouth, affords many charming views, and four miles from Scale Hill the Keswick and Cockermouth road is entered, near the Yew-tree which Wordsworth...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, JXot loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they march'd To Scotland's heaths... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 326 pàgines
...for such situations. Wordsworth has celebrated that yew — * Proc. of British Association, 1836 The pride of Lorton vale, Which to this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness as it stood of yore : and the " Four Brothers " of Seathwaite, in Borrowdale — a clump of yew-trees, which in their dark... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pàgines
...calm, Is left to muse upon the solemn scene. YEW-TREES. THERE is a yew-tree, pride of Lorton Valo, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yoro, Not loth to furnish weapons for tho bands Of Umfravillo or Percy, ere they march'd To Scotland's... | |
 | 1859 - 144 pàgines
...Cockermouth, presents many charming views. Four miles from Scale Hill, the Keswick and Cockermouth road is entered, near the Yew-tree which Wordsworth...Is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this clay stands single in the midbt Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pàgines
...\ve pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, fairy place ; Thai is fit home for theo ! YEW-TREEK. THERE is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst ( if its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1870 - 236 pàgines
...father of the man ; And I could wifh my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. YEW-TREES. There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day ftands fingle, in the midft Of its own darknefs, as it flood of yore, Not loth to furnifh weapons for... | |
 | Hips - 1871 - 106 pàgines
...cottaged grounds, Her rocky sheepwalks, and her woodland bounds.' 4. ' There is a yew-tree, pride of this vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness.' 5. ' Horses in the wall-girt stood Unshaded, eyeing far below the flood.' 6. ' Then be we, each and... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - 726 pàgines
...Cockermouth, presents many charming views. Four miles from Scale Hill, the Keswick and Cockermouth road is entered, near the Yew-tree which Wordsworth...Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single in the mitist Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weai>onfl for the bands Of Umfravillc... | |
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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... 
