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" 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 73
1826
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Harper's Anthology for College Courses in Composition and Literature: A ...

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 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...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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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...past ; Thy image at our last embrace — Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! 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...
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Fewness of My Days: A Life in Two Centuries

Alfred Thomas Townshend Verney-Cave Baron Braye - 1927 - 648 pages
...to rob the quotation from Burns and apply it to the Thames, substituting " Thames " for '* Ayr " : Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods thickening green. The whole scenery impresses itself on the mind of boys whose weekly task is the composing of Latin verse....
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Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory

1928 - 542 pages
...skilful variation of vowels, and his dexterous alternation of check and flow — " 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...
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Anthology of Romanticism, Volume 2

Ernest Bernbaum - English literature - 1929 - 490 pages
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The Standard Book of British and American Verse

Nella Braddy Henney - American poetry - 1932 - 808 pages
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Approaches to Poetry

Walter Blair, William Knox Chandler - American poetry - 1935 - 822 pages
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1920: With an ..., Volume 1

American poetry - 1937 - 2018 pages
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An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry

Howard Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp - English poetry - 1937 - 1258 pages
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Poems and Songs

Robert Burns - 1946 - 170 pages
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