 I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew.  The Spirit of American Literature - Side 111af John Albert Macy - 1913 - 347 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 sider
...Proem to the former collection commenced with these exquisite stanzas : "I love the old melodious lay a Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's...as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy ahowerR, And drink with glad, still lips the blessing of the sky." Spenser wrote nothing better than... | |
 | 1849 - 658 sider
...Miscellaneous' lyrics. Mr. WHITTIER introduces his volume -with this modest and felicitous ' Proem :' * I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; 1 feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad still... | |
 | 1849 - 640 sider
...one misht be proud to have written, and which my one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I lore the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To brealhe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy... | |
 | 1849 - 614 sider
...melodious laye Which softly melt the ages through, The Bonys of SPENSER'S golden days, Arcudiim HIDNEV'S silvery phra.se. Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. ' Yet vainly in my quirt hours To brent ho their marvellous notée I try; I feel them, ae the leaves and flowers ' In... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 388 sider
...as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, iSth, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. 1 LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To hreathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 422 sider
...as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, i8th, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning daw. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves... | |
 | 1849 - 636 sider
...any one might be proud to have written, and which ID; one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my qniet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; 1 feel them, as the leaves and t'owcrs In silence... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 sider
...Heaven ! As the key-note of Whittier's poetry, we might take his own quaint and beautiful lines : — I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadia Sidney's silver phrase, Sprinkling o'er the noon of Time with freshest morning dew. Whittier's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 sider
...that its subject is not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. j. aw PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest ifccrning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 sider
...say that its subjeft is not such as the writer would have chosen at an ' sequent period. JG W PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. The songs... | |
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