 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...redbreasts, and combine To sing dirges o'er his stone ! Carlwright. The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and, beneath, The hawthorn soon...will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. THE FIRST SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The welcome guest of settled Spring, The swallow,... | |
 | Months - English poetry - 1864 - 262 pages
...pride. THE FIRST SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and beneath, The hawthorn soon...thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come, Summer visitant, attach To my reed roof your nest of clay, And let... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...BOWLES. THE FIRST SWALLOW. [HE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and, beneath, The hawthorn soon...welcome guest of settled Spring, The swallow, too, has come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her... | |
 | Emma Newby - 1866 - 360 pages
...CHAPTEB XXV. The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speed-well flowers are gay ; The oats are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath — The silver wreath of May. CHARLOTTE SMITH. MAKION sat down trembling with excitement, when after they were gone, and she had... | |
 | Nature - 1867 - 80 pages
...turfy grave. THE SWALLOW. HE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding ; and beneath, The hawthorn soon...as she pass'd. Come, Summer visitant, attach To my reed-roof your nest of clay ; And let my ear your music catch, Low twittering underneath the thatch,... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1868 - 592 pages
...peculiar and beautiful versification. " Tho welcome guest ot settled spring, The swallow, too, has come at last ! Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed." Cuvier, the great naturalist, in his later years loved to recount the incident... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...seems to be. — WALLER, 21. — STANZA or FIVE LINES, 8-8. (Divided triplet and suspended rhyme.) The welcome guest of settled spring, The swallow, too, is come at last ; Jnst at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed.... | |
 | E. Wadham - English language - 1869 - 176 pages
...falls to three beats only. The gorse is yellow on the heath The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and beneath The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. — CHARLOTTE SMITH. In the following, lines two and five are alike short. How sweet the answer Echo... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1870 - 208 pages
...conceit.' THE FIRST SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speed- well flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and beneath. The hawthorn soon...thrushes sing, I saw her dash with ra.pid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed roof your nest of clay, And let... | |
 | Charles Leeson Prince - Climatic changes - 1871 - 270 pages
...Flora sickens." Spril. " The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and beneath The hawthorn soon...thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitant, attach To my old roof your nest of clay, And let my... | |
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The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. 
