 Than all the dreams that held my youth A still repining debtor : That Nature gives her handmaid, Art, The themes of sweet discoursing ; The tender idyls of the heart In every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl, Of loving knight and...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 251857Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...discoursing ; The tender idyls of the heart In every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl Of loving knight and lady, When farmer boy...return, The same sweet fall of even, That rose on wooded Craigie-burn, And sank on crystal Devon. I matched with Scotland's heathery h'lli; The sweet-brier... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...discoursing ; The tender idyls of the heart In every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl, Of loving knight and lady, When farmer...return, The same sweet fall of even, That rose on wooded Craigie-burn, 1 matched with Scotland's heathery hills The sweet-brier and the clover ; With Ayr and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...discoursing ; The tender idyls of the heart In every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl, Of loving knight and lady, When farmer...return, The same sweet fall of even, That rose on wooded Craigie-burn, 1 matched with Scotland's heathery hilla The sweet-brier and the clover ; With Ayr and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl, Of loving knight and lady, When fanner s, ever reaping something new : That which they have...human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, Craigie-bum, And sank on crystal Devon. I matched with Scotland's heathery hill» The sweet-brier and... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...discoursing ; The tender idyls of the heart In every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold 1 b 0 "P 1872 J.B. F Craigie-burn, I matched with Scotland's heathery hills The sweet-brier and the clover ; With Ayr and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...discoursing ; The tender idyls of the heart In every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl, Of loving knight and lady, When farmer...return, The same sweet fall of even, That rose on wooded Craigie-burn, And sank on crystal Devon. I matched with Scotland's heathery hills The sweetbrier and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...discoursing ; The tender idyls of the heart In every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl, Of loving knight and lady, When farmer...return, The same sweet fall of even, That rose on wooded Craigie-burn, And sank on crystal Devon. I matched with Scotland's heathery hills The sweetbrier and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1874 - 500 pages
...The romance underlying ; The joys and griefs that plume the wings I saw through all familiar things Of Fancy skyward flying. I saw the same blithe day...return, The same sweet fall of even, That rose on wooded Craigie-hurn, And sank on crystal Devon. I matched with Scotland's heathery hills The sweet-brier and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl, Of loving knight and lady, When farmer toy and barefoot girl Were wandering there already ? I...return, The same sweet fall of even, That rose on wooded Craigio-burn, And sank on crystal Devon. I matched with Scotland's heathery hills The sweet-brier and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 316 pages
...discoursing ; The tender idyls of the heart In every tongue rehearsing. Why dream of lands of gold and pearl, Of loving knight and lady, When farmer...wings Of Fancy skyward flying. I saw the same blithe dav return, The same sweet fall of even. That rose on wooded Craigie-burn, And sank on crystal Devon.... | |
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