| Recitations - 1876 - 732 pages
...for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When 'wildered ho drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his...last sob by the side of his dam. And more stately thy conch, by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies snug by the gray plover Hying, With one faithful friend... | |
| 1876 - 732 pages
...thee, trentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When 'wildered ho drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last sob by the side of Ins dam. And more stately thy conch, by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by tho gray plover... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When, wildercd, 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 Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 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 gray plover flying, With one faithful friend but to witness... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 742 pages
...tliy head like the meek mountain lamb, When, wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, I 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 gray plover flying, With one faithful friend but to witness... | |
| London readers - 1878 - 344 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 grey plover flying, With one faithful friend but to witness... | |
| W. and R. Chambers (ltd.) - 1878 - 174 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 one faithful friend but to witness... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 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 his last sob by the side of his dam. 5 extended, stretched out. e mute, dumb . 7 requiem, a service read or sung for the repose of the dead.... | |
| Laurel - 1879 - 438 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 distant lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the gray plover flying, With but one faithful friend to witness... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 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... | |
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