 O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green, The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2671809Full view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1839 - 506 lehte
...bright, and gay in his bridegroom trim — the sweet south shook the dew-drops from the budding trees ; " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest ; The birds sang love on every spray ;" and all nature wore that universal smile which the untranslatable expression of ^Eschylus so exquisitely... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1844 - 516 lehte
...sun was clear, bright, and gay — the sweet south shook the dewdrops from the budding trees — " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every sray." But then we marked not this : the hunt, the buffalo was all we saw, or cared to see. Mine was... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 334 lehte
...humane: What a flattering idea, then, is the world to come ! Would to God I as firmly believed it, as The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on ev'ry spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these... | |
 | John Wilson - 1840 - 372 lehte
...wanton to be press'd, The birds fang love on every spray, Till too, too soon the glowing west Froclaim'd the speed of winged day. " Still o'er these scenes...wakes And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes. As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade I... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 lehte
...grées; j The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd am'rous round the raptur d seen* ; The flow'rs f anything ; he «aw that even in the company of folly a wise man might sit down and be wtified. Out of Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. IV. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods... | |
 | 1900 - 550 lehte
...thick'ning green ; The fragrant Birch, and Hawthorn hoar, Twined, amorous, round the raptured scene ; The flowers sprang, wanton to be prest ; The birds...every spray ; Till too, too soon the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day." Nothing is more beautiful to me at this season of sunlight and... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 lehte
...hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birda sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim 'd the speed of winged day." While composing Tam o' Shanter, his ecstasy, though of a more joyous kind, was sufficiently serious... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1841 - 506 lehte
...bright, and gay in his bridegroom trim — the sweet south shook the dew-drops from the budding trees ; " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest ; The birds sang love on every spray ;" and all nature wore that universal smile which the untranslatable expression of ^Eschylus so exquisitely... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1841 - 354 lehte
...wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fopdly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 lehte
...thick'ning green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptur'd scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. 4. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
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