The purple heath and golden broom, On moory mountains catch the gale, O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet in the vale; But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round... The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 532edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
| Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...violet in the vale ; But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den....honour of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem,1 The wild bee murmurs on its breast, The blue fly bends its pensile 2 stem Light o'er the sky-lark's... | |
| James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...violet in tbe vale. But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den....of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild bee murmurs on its breast, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem Light o'er the skylark's nest.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...violet in the vale. But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den....carnation's bed ; And blooms on consecrated ground In honor of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem ; The wild, bee murmurs on its breast ; The blue-fly... | |
| John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 pages
...Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den. 7. Within the garden's cultured round, It shares the sweet carnation's bed ; And blooms in consecrated ground, In honor of the dead. 8. The lambkin crops its crimson gem; The wild bee murmurs... | |
| Benson Bailey - 1877 - 128 pages
...the year, Companion of the sun. It smiles upon the lap of May, To sultry August spreads its charms, Within the garden's cultured round, It shares the...blooms on consecrated ground In honour of the dead. On waste and woodland, rock and plain, Its humble buds unheeded rise ; The rose does but a summer reign,... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's don. Within the garden's cultured round It shares the sweet...carnation's bed ; And blooms on consecrated ground In honor of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem ; The wild bee murmurs on its breast ; The blue-fly... | |
| James Montgomery - 1879 - 572 pages
...violet in the vale; But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den....the dead. ' The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild bee murmurs on its breast, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem, Light o'er the sky-lark's nest.... | |
| Thomas Murby (publisher.) - 1879 - 264 pages
...Plays on the margin o[ the rill, Peeps round the fox's den. Within the garden's cultured • roun>l, It shares the sweet carnation's bed ; And blooms on...of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild bee murmurs on its breast, The blue fly bends its pensile • stem Light o'er the skylark's nest.... | |
| Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 pages
...in the vale : " But this bold flow'ret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den....Within the garden's cultured round It shares the sweet carnation bed, And blooms on consecrated ground In honour of the dead. " The lambkin crops its crimson... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps down the fox's den. Within the garden's cultured round...of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild bee murmurs on its breast, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem Light o'er the sky-lark's nest.... | |
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