Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat-- Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall we see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i' the sun,... The Noble Traytour: A Chronicle - Page 91by Thomas (of Swarraton, armiger, pseud.) - 1857Full view - About this book
| Caleb Thomas Winchester - English literature - 1922 - 432 pages
...try to picture life as we should like it, doesn't the forest of Arden come oftenest to our thought? Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter... | |
| John Matthews Manly, Eliza Randall Simmons Bailey, Edith Rickert - English language - 1922 - 300 pages
...pronounce correctly such troublesome words as tune, merry, weather, and seeking ; UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat — Come hither, come hither, come hither ! Here shall he see No enemy But... | |
| Frank Nugent Freeman, Mary Lorette Dougherty - Penmanship - 1923 - 324 pages
...and persistently works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair. Thomas Carlyle. Exercise 155: Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat? Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter... | |
| Alice Meynell - Children's poetry - 1923 - 260 pages
...often of their love of Nature, but the true love of country life— rough and smooth—is not modern. UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter... | |
| Robert Bridges - Children's poetry, English - 1924 - 296 pages
...brothers, Like birds in their nest, Are ready for rest, And sport no more seen On the darkening Green. UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat — Come hither, come hither, come hither ! Here shall he see No enemy But... | |
| Isobel Davidson - Reading (Elementary) - 1925 - 504 pages
...natural resources? (f) What are the characteristics of its people? Faber Prang UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat — Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter... | |
| Olive Beaupré Miller - Children's literature - 1922 - 456 pages
...draw to the dale and hear the small birds singing." _____ "Under the Greenwood William Shakespeare Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter... | |
| Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 634 pages
...Adonis, 853-8. Set by Sir Henry Bishop ; Songs of England, I, 72 (Boosey). 148. Under the Greenwood Tree UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither : Here shall he see No enemy But winter... | |
| Best books - 1926 - 780 pages
...the girl is mine.' " Author's Advertisement of His Book. UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE, by Thomas Hardy. "Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat." Shakespeare's As You Like It. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, by Thomas Hardy.... | |
| American periodicals - 1885 - 860 pages
...have rejoiced over the frolicsome little song redolent of the green fields and flowers of England: — Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat? Come hither ! come hither ! come hither I Here shall he see No enemy. But... | |
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