OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England -... Littell's Living Age - Page 1811846Full view - About this book
| American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...Snap off, figs and all ; For here comes the whole of the tempest ! No refuge but creep . Back tgain to my side or my shoulder, And listen or sleep." This...the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-treo bole are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now !... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...Calais or Cologne : — "Home-Thoughts from Abroad. " Oh, to be in England, Now that April s thero, And who wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood eheaf Round the elm-treo bob; are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England... | |
| England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...past to gold ! liAIHiY COKXWALI" from i. OH ! to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That...chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now! II. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark !... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1862 - 804 pages
...Kees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Bound the elm-tree hole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! " " You nave forgotten the gem of the piece," Lancelot added, — " the tribute to the mavis. 1 That's... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...referred to. HOME-THOUGHTS FEOM ABEOAD. Oh, to be in England, 1. Now that April 'a there— And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Bound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf; While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...little longer ! HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD. i. OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That...chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! ii. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1865 - 736 pages
...oftener : — HOME-THOUGHTS FBOM ABROAD. ' Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That...boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole arc in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! % And after April,... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 pages
...poem is called " Home Thoughts from Abroad." Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning unaware, That...boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bolo are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now. And after... | |
| 1874 - 968 pages
...singing far away under Italian skies — " Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there ; And whoever wakes in England, Sees some morning unaware That the...on the orchard bough In England now ! " And after all it comes to this, poet or no poet — we all of us, who have any poetry in our nature, any touch... | |
| James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...full of interest and treasured memories. " Oh ! to be in England, Now that Apnl's there ; And whoever wakes in England Sees some morning, unaware, That...the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bongh In England now! " —... | |
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