 Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, o'erhung with wild woods, thickening green; the fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar twined amorous round the raptured scene; the flowers sprang wanton to be prest, the birds sang love on every spray ; till too, too...  The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany - Page 731826Full view - About this book
 | William Watson - Poetry - 1892 - 276 pages
...dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 't was our last ! Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung...pressed, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my memory... | |
 | William Watson - Poetry - 1892 - 272 pages
...transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 't was our last ! Ayr, SurS''ng> kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods,...pressed, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west rroclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my memory... | |
 | Edward William Cole - 1892 - 412 pages
...— Thy image at our last embrace ; — Ah 1 little thought we 'twas our last 1 Ayr, gurgling, kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening...the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed... | |
 | 1892 - 130 pages
...where, as he says — " Ayr, gurgling, kiss'd his pebbly shore O'erhung with wild woods, thick'ning green, The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous 'round the raptured scene." LI.— WHITTIER'S FIRST READING OF BURNS. THE poet Whittier once narrated this episode in his early... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...we t was onr last '! Ayr, gurgling, kiee'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thick'ning green ; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured seen«; The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, 'The birds sang love on every spray — Till tnu, too... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...of transports past I Thv image at our last embrace — Ah ! little thought we, 'twas our last ! -fc Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'er-hung...pressed ; The birds sang love on every spray ; Till, too, too soon, the glowing wast Proclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my memory... | |
 | Euphemia Vale Blake - English poetry - 1894 - 168 pages
...kissed his pebbled shore, O'er hung with wild woods thick' ning green, The fragrant birch and hawthorne hoar, Twined amorous 'round the raptured scene; The...pressed, The birds sang love on every spray; Till too, too soon the glowing west Proclaim' d the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1894 - 202 pages
...where, as he says — " Ayr, gurgling, kiss'd his pebbly shore O'erhung with wild woods, thick'ning green, The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous 'round the raptured scene." HIGHLAND MARY. By JOHN ARNOT. AT a Greenock Burns celebration, Mr. John Arnot, in proposing " The Memory... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - 1896 - 362 pages
...dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace — Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung...the raptured scene; The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray — Till soon, too soon, the -glowing west Proclaimed the... | |
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