| English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...meeter for thee, gentle WIT of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When 'wildered he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws...side of his dam ; And more stately thy couch, by this distant lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the gray plover flying, With but one faithful friend to witness... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...should fall. But meeter for thee, gentle lover of nature, When, wildered, he drops from some ciiff huge in stature, And draws his last sob' by the side of his dam. And more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the gay plover flying, With one faithful friend but to witness... | |
| Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When, 'wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature. And draws...side of his dam ; And more stately thy couch, by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the gray plover flying, With but one faithful friend to witness... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb ; When, wilder'd, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws...side of his dam. And more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the grey plover flying, With one faithful friend but to witness... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb; When, wildered, he drops from some cliff huge iu stature, And draws his last sob by the side of his dam. And more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, fhy obsequies sung by the gray plover flying, iVith one faithful friend but tu witness... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamh ; When, wilder'd, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last sob hy the side of his dam. And more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, Thy ohsequies sung hy... | |
| James Maidment - Law - 1839 - 406 pages
...for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When, wilder'd, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws...side of his dam. And more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the grey-plover flying, With one faithful friend but to witness... | |
| Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb; When, 'wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last sob by the side of his dam. And moTp stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the grey plover flying ; With... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...meeter for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When wilder'd he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws...side of his dam. And more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the gray plover flying, With one faithful friend but to witness... | |
| Francis Horner - Russia (Federation) - 1843 - 534 pages
...for thee, gentle lover of nature, ' To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When, wilder'd, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws...side of his dam. And more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sun^ by the grey-plover flying, With one faithful friend but to witness... | |
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