 Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deform'd With dripping rains, or wither'd by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden...  Poems - Page 44by William Cowper - 1821Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pages
...rude fragments now Lie scatter'd where the shapely column stood. Her palaces are dust. I would not vet exchange thy sullen skies. And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines. - Though thy clinic Be fickle, and thy year most part deform'd With dripping rains, or withcr'd by... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...frost. I would not yet exehange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer Franeo Writh all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers. Cowper's Т ink. Thee therefore still, blame-worthy as thou art, With all thy loss of empire, and though... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deform'd With dripping rains, or wither'd by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies,...groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers." Bk. II. His humane and generous feelings : " I was born of woman, and drew milk As sweet as charity... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies,...groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers." IV. WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge... | |
 | E. S. G. S., Emily Susan Goulding Saunders - Italy - 1868 - 228 pages
...Kock of Ages." CHAPTER XXIX. NEUFCHATEL AND THE RETURN TO ENGLAND. " I'd * not exchange my England's sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer...groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.— Cowper. '• By the good hand of my God upon me." THE train skirted the eastern shore of Lake Leman,... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1871 - 284 pages
...— -" Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year moBt part deformed With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies...warmer France With all her vines, nor for Ausonia's grores Of golden fruitage .and her myrtle bowers." Now in the creed of one at least (and of the least)... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed With dripping rains, or withered Bryant wanner France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers.... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, 1 B. Ford and Company height sublime Of patriot eloquence to flush down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant my task : But... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...Though thy clime I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With...bowers. To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime Of patriotic eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant my task: But I can feel thy fortunes,... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deformed With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies,...nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle-bowers. . To shake thy senate, and from hights sublime Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire... | |
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