 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1851 - 880 pages
...beautiful lines originally addressed to the bird of spring — ' Sweet bird, thy bower is ever fair, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year.' But what is poetry? Many definitions have been attempted, and, perhaps, none is quite successful. It... | |
 | Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...fliest thy vocal vale ; An annual guest in other lands, Another Spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear : Thou hast no...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 ! LOOAN, 1781. HOTES BY A NATURALIST.... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1852 - 160 pages
...the force of numbers strives in vain, The glowing scene unequal to sustain. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little,... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - Education - 1854 - 472 pages
...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 clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. Oh ! could I fly, Td fly with thee ; We'd mak«, on joyful wing, Our anuual visit rounil the ^lobe,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 602 pages
...fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest, in other lands, Another spring to bail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no...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. A CARD- PARTY. IT is related... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...on the bloom, Thou fly'st the vocal vale ; ' An annual guest in other lauds, Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no...O ! could I fly, I'd fly with thee; We'd make with social wing, Our annual visits o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. Logan. LISTENING THE CUCKOO.... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...fliest the vocal vale, An annual guest, in other lands Another spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green. Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no...winter in thy year. O ! could I fly, I'd fly with thec ; We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. Loo... | |
 | Hymns - 1853 - 184 pages
...puts on the bloom, Thou fliest the vocal vale; An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird, thy bow'r is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. LANGHORNE. 46. Invitation to the Birds. YE gentle warblers, hither fly, And shun the noontide heat;... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1920 - 390 pages
...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 clear; Thou 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,... | |
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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... 
