| Allan Ramsay - 1733 - 398 pages
...Soft as the down of turtle dove, Gentle as winds when 2fypher blows, Refrefliing as defending rams To funburnt climes and thirfty plains. True as the...; From every other charmer free, My life and love fliall follow thee. The lamb the flow'ry thyme devours, The dam the tender kid purfues, Sweet Philomel,... | |
| Allan Ramsay - 1762 - 506 pages
...damafk Soft as the down of turtle-dove, Gentle as winds when zephyr blows, Refrefhing, as defending rains To fun-burnt climes and thirfty plains. True as the needle to the pole, The dam the tender kid purfues, Sweet Philomel, in fhady ,bowers • The lamb the flow'ry thyme devours,.... | |
| 438 pages
...SWEET are the charms of her I love More fragrant than the da.nalk rote, Soft as the down of tunle dove, To fun-burnt climes and thirfty plains. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the fun ; Conflant as gliding waters roll, "VVhofe fwelling tides obey the moon ; From every other charmer... | |
| Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 496 pages
...as winds when zephyr blows, Refreshing as descending rains To sun-burnt climes and thirsty plaint. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun, Constant as gliding waters roll, Whose swelling tides obey the moon ; From ev'ry other charmer... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...dove, Gentle as air when zephyr blows, Refreshing as descending rains To sun-burnt climes, and thirsty plains. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun : Constant as gliding waters fall, SUPPLEMENT. Alas ! 'tis too late at thy fate to repine ! Poor... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...dove, Gentle as air when Zephyr blows, Refreshing as descending rains To sun-burnt climes and thirsty plains. True as the needle to the pole, Or " as the dial to the sun ;" Constant as gliding waters roll, Whose swelling tides obt-y the moon! From ev'ry other charmer... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 pages
...dove, Gentle as air when Zephyr blows, Refreshing as descending rains To sun-burnt climes, and thirsty plains. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun ; Constant as gliding waters roll, Whose swelling tides obey the moon ; From every other charmer... | |
| John Struthers - Songs, English - 1821 - 434 pages
...Gentle as wind when zephyr blows ; Refreshing, as descending rains, To sunburnt climes and thirsty plains. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun, Constant as gliding waters roll, Whose swelling tides obey the moon ; From every other charmer... | |
| Ballads, English - 1834 - 484 pages
...turtle-dove, Gentle as wind when zephyr blows ; Refreshing as descending rains To sun-burnt climes and thirsty plains. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun ; Constant as gliding waters roll, Whose swelling tides obey the moon : From ev'ry other charmer... | |
| Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...dove, Gentle as air when Zephyr blows, Refreshing as descending rains To sun-burnt climes, and thirsty plains. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun ; Constant as gliding waters roll, Whose swelling tides obey the moon j From every other charmer... | |
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