 By Heavens ! it must be a pleasant thing To live and die within a garden land, — To see the bursting herbage in the spring, And watch as day by day the buds expand ! To hear the sweet birds in the morning sing, Those songs which the pure heart can understand...  Florentine Tales: With Modern Illustrations - Seite 7von Thomas Powell - 1847 - 331 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1846 - 534 Seiten
...we must not part from the poem without adducing a specimen both of its force and its feeling : — " By heavens ! it must be a pleasant thing To live and...leafy tree, Whose rustling makes a music like the sea. " And then to watch the twilight shadows creep Over the mighty heavens, like a thought Glooming the... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1846 - 338 Seiten
...decay : — And here and there, above one's drowsy head, A mighty vine its leafy shadow spread. XXX. By Heavens ! it must be a pleasant thing To live and...leafy tree, Whose rustling makes a music like the sea. XXXI. And then to watch the twilight shadows creep Over the mighty heavens,. like a thought Glooming... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1847 - 352 Seiten
...changeless ration : Or as a bee, in new-made honey caught, Dies overwhelmed by thorough saturation. Thus our good Abbot felt the Franklin's wife At once the...tree, Whose rustling makes a music like the sea. XIV. An ancient Abbey in a twilight gloom, With music speaking like a soul of sound That trembled 'twixt... | |
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