| Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pagine
...to their mouths. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! •"" «s [2 2e The voice I hear | this passing night, | was heard In ancient days, Thy emperor and clown : 3 s. Bet " ~Perhaps the self-same song, [that found a path Sym ~ ^ Through... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pagine
...Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations trend thee down ; The voice I hour this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears nmid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pagine
...requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home. She stood in tears amid the alien corn; Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll... | |
| 1852 - 782 pagine
...Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies! Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs. The voice I hear, this passing...emperor and clown ! Perhaps the self-same song that lound a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when tiekfoi home, She flood in tears amid the alien corn... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pagine
...convince it."— Bacon. Ala, a wing ; as, aisle. Alienus, foreign ; us, alien, alienate, Inalienable. " Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn." Keats. Allos (Gr.), ozher; as, allegory; lit.... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 pagine
...become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears timid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic... | |
| 1854 - 400 pagine
...become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard. In...days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same sons; that found a path Through the Bad heart of Ruth, when, sick for homo, She stood in tears amid... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pagine
...become a sod. Thou wast not born for earth, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown ; Perhaps the self -same song that found a path Through the ead heart of lluth, when, sick for home, She stood in... | |
| William Henry Hurlbert - 1854 - 252 pagine
...woods of our own New England, we may not hold our breath to hear as in Surrey or in Switzerland : — " The selfsame song that found a path, Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home, She stood in tears among the alien corn ; " nor soar with " the scorner of the ground,"... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pagine
...become a sod. VII. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of lluth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times... | |
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