| Kenyon West - 1895 - 614 pągines
...we nearer draw to life's dark goal, Be hopeful spring the favourite of the soul ! 1817. YEW-TREES. THERE is a yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to...midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loath to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths;... | |
| Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 pągines
...Still, as we nearer draw to life's dark goal, Be hopeful spring the favourite of the soul ! YEW-TREES. THERE is a yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Not loath to furnish weapons for the bands Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Of Umfraville... | |
| 1896 - 1224 pągines
...slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. 6. WOKDSWOKTH — Yew-Trees. hing of courage As rous'd with rage with rage doth...accent tun'd in self-same key. Retorts to chiding fort c. WOBDSWOBTH — Yew- Trees. This lonely Yew-tree stands Far from all human dwelling. d. WORDSWORTH... | |
| Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1903 - 286 pągines
...peace as better than war, once preached a sermon ; and we trust, that for many a long year still, ' single in the midst of its own darkness as it stood of yore,' may stand the Lorton Yew. LODORE AFTER STORM. FIVE days of continual tempest and five nights of storm-wind... | |
| William Angus Knight - 1904 - 492 pągines
...solemnity of the old "fraternal four," there is m doubt that the Borrowdale grove is a thing of the pasl There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst 1 Stopford Brooke's Theology in the English Poets, p. 259. Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore;... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1908 - 636 pągines
...vocal harmony To stay the wanderer's steps and soothe his thoughts. Published 1842 YEW-TREES XHERE is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst s own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 pągines
...he ended, I could have laughed myself to scorn to find 1 secure ; e lonely moor ! ' 140 I YEW-TREES THERE is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to...stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stpod of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To... | |
| william worsworth - 1923 - 498 pągines
...Form he chose to feign, While fluttering in the bushes. YEW-TREES [Composed 1803.— Published 1815.] There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its o\vn darkness, as it stood of yore; Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy... | |
| Thomas Earle Welby - 1925 - 254 pągines
...shun Death with anxious Strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life ? Joseph Blanco White. THERE is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day Slands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons... | |
| William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 pągines
...composed after June 1811 (see Curtis pp. 605-6 and Reed, ii. 37-8) reads: — That vast eugh-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness as it stood of yore; Nor those fraternal four in Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks, and... | |
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