Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2711809Full view - About this book
| Scotland - 1839 - 892 pages
...Where bright beaming summers exult the perfume ; Far dearer to me you lone glen o' green rirockan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom : Far dearer to me are yon rTumble broom bowers, Where the bluo-hrll and gowan lurk lowly unseen ; For tl:ers, lightly tripping... | |
| Anne Pratt - Botany - 1840 - 448 pages
...VENUs's LOOKINO-OLASS. Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume, Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green bracken, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom : Far dearer to me yon humble broom bowers,... | |
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...GROVES 0' SWEET MYRTLE. THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone...For there lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A-listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Though rich is the breeze in their gay sunny valleys,... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...of Burns's powers :— " Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone...Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom: Par dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen; For... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...Nothing can be sweeter in themselves, or by contrast with what precedes them, than the lines — " Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom." But the song has faults, and those, too, considerable ones. We doubt whether the reason assigned for... | |
| Robert Tyas - Flower language - 1842 - 462 pages
...myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me you lone glen o" green breckan, Wi" the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. It is said, that when Linnaeus came to England in 1736, he was so much delighted with the golden Mooin... | |
| 1842 - 858 pages
...XIII. CON NEMA R A. " Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright bcnuiuig summers exalt the perfume, Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckau Wi' the burn stealing uudcr the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers,... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...honour ol Mrs. Burns.'— Allan Cunningham. Tune.— Humoavs of Glen. THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A-listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Tho' rich is the breeze in their gay sunny valleys, And... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...Scottish song-writer was not habitually negligent of his numbers : — " Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A-listening... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Love poetry - 1844 - 384 pages
...shed A lijht, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping Ihe earth; • Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green bracken, Wi' the burn stealing under the long yellow broom! Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers.... | |
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