 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
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...image at our last embrace— Ah! little thought we 'twas our last! Ayr, gurgling, kiss'd his pebbl'd he teems His little song In gushes : As If it pleased him to disdain And mock the form 20 Twin'd amorous round the raptur'd scene ; The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 pages
...records 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...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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...action, Which, slanderer, he imitation calls. Trmlus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 149. 17 AYR (RIVER) hat passes by, And frights the school-boy from his...sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry no BURNS — To Mary in Heaven. is Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...they should be attributed, in such an event, to that most prolific poet Anon. 45 ' Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptur'd scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...embrace— Ah ! little thought we 't was our last ! '' " Oft, in the Stilly Night " Ayr, gurgling, kiss'd his pebbled shore. O'erhung with wild woods thickening green ; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar 'Twin'd amorous round the raptur'd scene ; The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love... | |
 | 1891 - 700 pages
...are our popular art educators. Not under such influence did the poets Burn?, Wordsworth, Bryant, sing The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous round the raptured scene. "Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. " Of blooming wild with flowers, Whose glory and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...dear of transports past ; Thy image at oar last embrace ; All ! little thought we 't was our last ! Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung...hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene ; The Bowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray, — Till soon, too soon, the... | |
 | Leendert Johannes Guittart - Dutch language - 1925 - 140 pages
...is only on this principle (viz. varying the pitch) that Burns' stanza can be read well : Ayr gurg\mg kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods,...and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scène. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on ev'ry spray, Till too, too soon... | |
 | 1896 - 432 pages
...these two is the Hawthorn, which is mentioned n times, against 12 for the Hazel, and 13 for the Birk. " The fragrant Birch and Hawthorn hoar Twined amorous round the raptured scene." " Within yon milk-white Hawthorn bush, Among her nestlings sits the thrush." " The milk-white Thorn... | |
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