mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent... The Edinburgh Review - Page 2611809Full view - About this book
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewie weet, Wi' speckled breast, When upward springing, blythe to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north...Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa'a maun shield ; But thou, beneath... | |
| Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet, Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blithe, to greet . The purpling east. ' Cauld blew the bitter-biting...glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent-earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield, High shelt'riny woods and wa's... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 350 pages
...speckled breast, When upward springing, blithe, to greet The purplin' east. Cauld blew the bitter biting north Upon thy early, humble birth: Yet cheerfully...Scarce rear'd above the parent earth, Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...meet ; Bending thee 'mang the dewy wcet, Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blythe to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north,...cheerfully thou glinted forth, Amid the storm, Scarce reared above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting nortli Upon thy early, humble birth : Yet cheerfully thou...Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield; But thou, beneath... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet, Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north...cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce reared above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 788 pages
...upward-springing, blythe 10 greet Tbe purpling east. " Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon ihy early, humlije birth; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the...above the parent earth, Thy tender form. " There, in ihy scanty mantle clnd, Thy snawie bosom sun- ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble... | |
| Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...maun crush amang the stouree Thy elender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r, My bonuie gem. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early,...cheerfully thou glinted* forth Amid the storm. Scarce reared above thy parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flow'ra our gardens yield, High sheltering... | |
| 1854 - 362 pages
...'uiang the dewy weet, Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing blythe to greet The purpling cast. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth, Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth • 3 Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting ^ow'rs our... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewie weet, Wi' speckled breast, When upward springing, blythe to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north...Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath... | |
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