My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news... Appalachia - Seite 501892Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edith Rickert - 1912 - 604 Seiten
...linked with thee ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure...ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 Seiten
...calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long; 40 And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 45 How like a prodigal doth nature seem When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me... | |
| Will David Howe - 1912 - 328 Seiten
...linked with thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure...childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me... | |
| 1923 - 658 Seiten
...linked with thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure...ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common artl Thou teachest me... | |
| Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 Seiten
...linked with thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me... | |
| 1892 - 848 Seiten
...linked with thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door sang clearly all day long; And I, secure...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers." A bird often affords our poet a metaphor by which to represent some of the sad reminiscences of his... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1917 - 662 Seiten
...linked with theo ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, » Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure...which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted cars When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou,... | |
| 1918 - 2030 Seiten
...linked with thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree -» Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure...ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me... | |
| 1918 - 424 Seiten
...linked with thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure...ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 Seiten
...linked with thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who, from the" dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, «° And I, secure...ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When, thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me... | |
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