 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1902 - 780 Seiten
...than my cattle unfold ; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood pigeons breed, But let me such plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he ne'er... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 Seiten
...of roses that blow ! And when her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall harmoniously join 30 In concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 Seiten
...strains of wild melody flow ! How the nightingales warble their lovqs From thickets of roses that blow ! And when her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall harmoniously join 30 In concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 have found out a gift for... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 Seiten
...strains of wild melody flow ! How the nightingales warble their loves From thickets of roses that blow ! And when her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall harmoniously join 30 In concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 have found out a gift for... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy, Arabella Kenealy - 1908 - 350 Seiten
...humanising influence which the well-known lines of Shenstone had upon me when a boy of nine or ten:— " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood pigeons breed, But let me that blunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. ' For he... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1909 - 374 Seiten
...than my cattle unfold ; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me such plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he ne'er could be true, she averred,... | |
 | Norman Hepple - 1911 - 306 Seiten
...strains of wild melody flow ! How the nightingales warble their loves From thickets of roses that blow! And when her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall...and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. W. SHENSTONK 156.— A Wish Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1911 - 414 Seiten
...a titlark's, in blowing which Martin and he had nearly been drowned in the yolk. THE BTRD-FANCIERS 'I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed: But let me the plunder forbear, She would say 'twas a barbarous deed." — Rows. 'And now, my lad, take them five... | |
 | Walter Jerrold, Robert Maynard Leonard - 1913 - 460 Seiten
...Windus and the Houghton, Mifflin Company. P. 342. A Oeological Madrigal. Shenstone's verses beginning I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed, are in Hope, the second part of his Pastoral Ballad in Four Parts. The inspiration of Bret Harte's... | |
 | Alice Isabel Hazeltine - 1918 - 108 Seiten
...their rich Fragrance bestow; And the Nightingales warble their Loves From Thickets of Roses, that blow. And when her bright Form shall appear, Each Bird shall harmoniously join, In a concert, so sweet & so clear, As she may not be fond to resign. Not a Pine in my Copse is there seen, But with... | |
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I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed... 
