 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 292 sider
...lay. Soon as the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fly'st the vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. » Sweet bird! thy bower is...thee; We'd make, with social wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. LESSON FIFTY-FIFTH. The Duke of Saxony. Henry, duke of Saxony,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 sider
...bloom, Thou fly'st the vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. S'.veet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;...thee; We'd make, with social wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. LESSON FIFTY-FIFTH. The Duke of Saxony. Henry, duke of Saxony,... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 sider
...lay. What time the pea puts on the bloom, Thou Hirst thy local vale, Another guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is...O could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. *In his own copy Bruce had... | |
 | Migratory birds - 1847 - 74 sider
...through the wood, To pull the primrose gay, Starts the new voice of spring to hear, And imitates thy lay. Sweet bird, thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...winter in thy year. O could I fly, I'd fly with thee, And make, with joyous wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring." GRASSHOPPER-LARK—... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 sider
...been then more versed in poetry, I might have addressed him in the words of Logan to the cuckoo : " Sweet bird, thy bower Is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow In thy song, No winter in thy year. "Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We 'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,... | |
 | Laurence Goldstein - 1986 - 302 sider
...of aerial capability. He would feel the longings articulated by the lyric poets who inspired him. 41 O could I fly, I'd fly with thee: We'd make, with social wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the Spring. So speaks Michael Bruce (1746-67) to the cuckoo.2 Bringing... | |
 | John Veitch - 1887 - 388 sider
...; Dark scowling skies I see, Fast gathering round, and fraught with woe And wintry years to me.] 0 could I fly, I'd fly with thee : "We'd make, with social wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring." * Later reading, " the primrose gay." t " The new voice... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses. LOGAN John 1748-1788 6459 To the Cuckoo (attributed) has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein pe LOGAU Friedrich von 1604-1655 6460 (translated by Longfellow) Though the mills of God grind slowly,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 2005 - 417 sider
...realization of the poetical wish of Logan, in his wellknown apostrophe to the cuckoo : " Oh, wrald I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make with social wing Our annual visits o'er the globe, Companions of die spring," Steam was the cuckoo of this occasion — a cuckoo... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 2006 - 198 sider
...the eyes, but dried up the heart ever after. One had 124 been my fate, the other had been yours! [ - "Sweet bird, thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year/' So they begin. It was the month of May; the cuckoo sang shrouded in some woody copse; the showers fell... | |
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Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year... 
