 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...cheer as though one should another whelm : Where we have fought, and chased oft with darts. — • The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise, Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays. The wild forest,... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...With cheer6 as though one should another whelm : Where we have fought, and chased oft with darts. * The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise, Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays. The wild forest,... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...In active games of nimbleness and strength, Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length. " The secret...plaint, and of our ladies' praise ; Recording soft whatgrace each one had found. What hope of speed, what dread of long delays. " The wild forest, the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length. •. i' The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies praise ; 1 Teams-court. — * Stript. Recording soft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...after their being contracted to their respective brides. If this was the case, the poet's allusion to The secret groves which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies love, may be charitably understood as only recording the aspirations of their conjugal impatience.... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...In active games of nimbleness and strength, Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length ; The secret...The wild forest, the clothed holts with green ; With rains availed, and swift y-breathed horse With cry of hounds, and merry blasts between, Where we did... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...hearts, AVith cheer as though one should another whelm : Where we have fought, and chased oft with darts. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise, Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays. The wild forest,... | |
 | Henry Howard Earl of Surrey - Poets, English - 1831 - 280 pages
...In active games of nimbleness and strength, Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length. The secret...pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise ; Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays. The wild forest,... | |
 | Henry Howard (earl of Surrey.) - English poetry - 1870 - 264 pages
...trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length. 1 Hover. a Tennis-court. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise ; Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays. The wild forest,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 426 pages
...love Have missed the ball, and got sight of our dame To bait her eyes, which kept the leads above. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint and of our ladies' praise ; Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays. The wild forest,... | |
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With silver drops the meads yet spread for ruth ; In active games of nimbleness and strength, Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint,... 
