 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...sun to sun My race will run; I only bow, and say, " My God, thy will be done 1" TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Whose modest...nursed in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds; In this low vale, the promise of the year, Serene, thou openest to the nipping gale, Unnoticed and... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...ignorance, suppose The self-same power that brought me there, brought you. f0 mnrst. HK White. M ILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest...cradled in the winds. Thee when young Spring first questioned Winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this bank he threw,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...with mournful exstasy." There are few short poems more elegant than his lines TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. " Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds. " Thee, when young Spring first question'd Winter's... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...clod, And shine, in amaranthine bloom, Fast by the throne of GOD. MONTGOMERY. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds. Thee when young Spring first question'd Winter's... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...'t many a day, Unless he call in sin or vanity To help to hear 't away. COIVLEY. an titols f rrnnm MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest...cradled in the winds. Thee when young Spring first questioned Winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this bank he threw To... | |
 | 1854 - 362 pages
...my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same power that brought me there, brought you. HK White. ILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest...• And cradled in the winds. Thee when young Spring iirst questioned Winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this bank he threw,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 350 pages
...„ rviA tf <Ji ^ ; THE rOETKY OF FLOWERS. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE ••:.,' BY HK WHITE. \ !-i' v> \;. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest...Was nursed in whirling storms, And cradled in the wind. < • 7 „ — '' Thee, when young Spring first question'd •„"•',',' Winter's sway. And... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English poetry - 1855 - 870 pages
...hold, No more may heaven her blessings give, I shall not then be fit to live. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Whose modest...Thee, when young spring first question'd winter's swaj, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this bank he threw In this low vale, the... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English poetry - 1855 - 408 pages
...hold, No more may heaven her blessings give, I shall not then be fit to live. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest...cradled in the winds. Thee, when young spring first questioned winter's sway. And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this bank he threw To... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English poetry - 1856 - 362 pages
...smile, And through the long, the fretted aisle Should swell the note of praise. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. 1 MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest...nursed in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds, 2 Thee, when young spring first question'd winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight,... | |
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MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nursed in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young spring first questioned winter's sway. And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this... 
