 | Robert Southey - 1845 - 848 pàgines
...Tree. 6. And as when all the summer trees are sem So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue display Less bright than they. But when the bare and wintry woods we sec, What then so cheerful a* the Holly Tre* t 7. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pàgines
...apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smdoth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves a sober... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pàgines
...leaves upon the holly-tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away. Till...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves a sober... | |
 | 1848 - 650 pàgines
...leaves upon the Holly Tree. 5. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness shew, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till...should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. 6. And as when all the Summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue display... | |
 | Sketches - 1848 - 422 pàgines
...leaves upon the holly-tree. " And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. " And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly-leaves their... | |
 | William Ewart - 1849 - 94 pàgines
...see, Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. 3. For, as when all the summer trees are seen, So bright and...woods we see, What then' so cheerful as the Holly Tree ? 4. So, serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So, would I seem among the young... | |
 | Robert Holden Webb, William Higgins Coleman - 1849 - 462 pàgines
...may profit in the after time. Thus should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show ; All vain asperities, I day by day, Would wear away- —...should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. SOUTHET. ILEX. Holly. LINN. CL. iv. ORD. iii. NAME. An old word used by Horace and other authors, originally... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pàgines
...leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities, I, day by day, Would wear away; Till...see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? So would I seem, amid the young and gay, More grave than they; That in my age as cheerful I might be As... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 386 pàgines
...wish was fully realised : — " And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till...should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree." The HoUy Tree : Poems, p. 129. cide ; and if I do not go to Portugal, I have no choice but Italy, for... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pàgines
...I day by day Wonld wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age shonld be Like the high leaves npon the Holly Tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hne display Less bright than they ; But, when the bare and wint'ry woods we see, What then... | |
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And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly tree. 
