 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...command I beautify the land, Creeping, silently creeping everywhere. SAKAH ROBERTS. THE IVY GREEN. 0, lson fiThe walls must be erumbleil, the stones decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim ; And the mouldering... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 364 pages
...stretch upwards, and the root will bury itself in the ground. FIQUIER. Adapted. 13.-THE IVY GREEN. On, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! On right choice food are his meals, I ween, 1 In his cell so lone and cold. The walls must be crumbled,... | |
 | Excelsior poetry book - 1880 - 234 pages
...such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. — Coviper. THE IVY GREEN. OH ! a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ; On right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled,... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...— Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. Walter Raleigh. *i6i* THE IVY GREEN. Oh ! a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er...dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone ? THOMAS MOORE. THE IVY G KEEN. Он ! dawn doth rise ; Then to come in spite of sorrow,...the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively And the mouldering dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen,... | |
 | Thomas Meehan - Gardening - 1881 - 418 pages
...when Algeria will rank among the richest colonies of the world." THE IVY GEEEN. BY CHARLES DICKENS. 0, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween. In hie cell so lone and cold. The walls must be crumbled, the stones decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...their sake, but His who grants them or denies them ! ISO 187 CHARLES DICKENS. THE IVY G/U-:E.\: On ! a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er...dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...trailing, Howling, railing, List the wailing Of the poor 1 TH. IMA* BUCHANAN READ. 3TI)c 3 ui] (Preen. OH ! a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er...dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears... | |
 | Thomas Johnson - Ribble River Valley (England) - 1882 - 254 pages
...all ordinary efforts to eradicate it. Oh ! a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er rains old ! Of right choice food are his meals I ween, In...lone and cold. The walls must be crumbled, the stones decay'd, To pleasure his dainty whim ; And the mould'ring dust that years have made Is a merry meal... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. A;. COWPEB — The Progress of Error. Line 285. Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are all his meals I ween, In his cell BO lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant... | |
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The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no... 
