 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...Primroses, With outspread heart that needs the rough leaves' care. j. GEOBGE MAcDoNALD — Wild Fencers. Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately line, Was nursed in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds. Thee when young spring first question'd... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...F.OIKTS. Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest lorm, so delicately tine, Wat mused in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds. Thee when young spring ñrst quistion'd winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this bank ho threw... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...poor Lorraine, Lorrec. J&inot HENRY KIRKE WHITE. Born 1785. Died 1806. M To AN EARLY PRIMROSE. 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 To... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...Where as I lie, by all forgot, A dying fragrance thou wilt o'er my ashes shed. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Whose modest...nursed in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds. Winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the Thee, when young Spring first questioned fight,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...poor Lorraine, Lorree. MINOR POETS. HENRY KIRKE WHITE. Born 1785. Died 1806. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest...so delicately fine, Was nursed in whirling storms, Thee, when young Spring first questioned Winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight,... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 pages
...our early spring flowers, Among the earliest of all flowers comes the pale and drooping Snowdrop. " Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire, Whose modest form, so delicately fine. Was nurs'd in whirling storms. And cradled by the wind«. " This flower, so simply elegant in itself, and... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...ghosts of Ossian skim ths misty vale, The hosts of Sylphids on th« moonbeam sail. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Whose modest...cradled in the winds. Thee, when young Spring first ques tioned Winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to tin fight, Thee on this bank he threw... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...Embracing hill and vale and stream, And warming nature with his beam. JOHN WOLCOTT, THE EARLY PRIMROSE. ,D offspring of a dark and sullen sire? Whose modest form, so delicately flne, Was nursed in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young Spring first questioned... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman ? HENRV WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. ILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Authors - 1887 - 456 pages
...White, entitled, ' The Early Primrose,' in which there is a string of such stanzas as the following : Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire, Whose modest form so delicately pure Was nursed in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Here the English is perfect as well as... | |
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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... 
