 | Lyrical gleanings - 1864 - 152 pages
...Switzers' snows, the Arabs' sand ; Or trod the piled leaves of the west, My own green forest land ; All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...Earth, His fields and streams among. They linger by the Boon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries ! The poet's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West, My own green forest-land. All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the Boon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries i The Poet's... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - American poetry - 1869 - 434 pages
...The Switzer's'snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West, My own green forest-land. All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries ! The poet's tomb is there. But what to them the sculptor's... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - American poetry - 1869 - 426 pages
...The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West, My own green forest-land. All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes he loved and sung, And gather feeltngs not of earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pastoral... | |
 | Christian literature - 1868 - 588 pages
...this book) strongly reminds one of Wordsworth, of whom our poet must have had a great admiration: " They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, Around thy sepulchres, Dumfries! The poet's tomb is there." Of "Marco Boezaris" we need not say... | |
 | 1872 - 838 pages
...a genius as real : the scenes of whose birth and death have been familiar since childhood. All nsk the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes he loved...the Doon's low trees. And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr ; And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries, The poet's tomb is there ! But they did not mind in the least... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1872 - 858 pages
...a genius as real : the scenes of whose birth and death have been familiar since childhood. All r.sk the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes he loved and sung, And gather feelings, not of e¡irth, His fields and streams among. They linger by the Boon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1874 - 368 pages
...Shakespeare, but a genius as real : the scenes of whose birth and death have been familiar since childhood. All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr ; And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries, The poet's tomb is there ! But they did not mind in the least... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1875 - 622 pages
...The Switzer's BUOW. the Arab's Kind, Or trod the piled leaves of the west, My own green forest land. All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the DOOM'S low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, Ami round thy sepulchres, Dumfries! The poet's... | |
 | William M'Dowall - Cemeteries - 1876 - 472 pages
...fame fills the world, making his mortal abode a shrine to which pilgrims from every land repair : " All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...the Doon's low trees. And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries — The Poet's tomb is there." The older portion of the churchyard... | |
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Poet's tomb is there. But what to them the sculptor's art, His funeral columns, wreaths, and urns... 
