 Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come.  The Naturalist - Page 1961857Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 240 pages
...know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come; 'Tis sweet to be awaken'd by the lark, Or lull'd by falling waters; sweet the...hum Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds, CXXIV. Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth Purple... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...ground Comes up the laugh of children, the soft voice Of maidens, and the sweet and solemn hymn,et«. " The hum Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds, The lisp of children, and theit, earliest words." Here are the disjecta verba poetas ; and, be it remembered, the passage is... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...coming, pad IOGK orighter when we come. Tis !we»t to te iWiKened by the lark, Or lulled 'X'in tailing trained land, Presented, and away. When all the meat was on the tab!;, Wh li- .1 oi children, and their earliest words. But trreeter far than this, than these, than all, Is... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 1070 pages
...Byron, when he would group together a collection of pleasing images, tells us that 1 Sweet Is the hem Of Bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds. The lisp of children, aud their earliest words.' The bard of Dartmoor speaks of ' Birds Bees, and Butterflies, the favourite... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...bird, a heart. EXAMPLES. (57.) Man is born unto trouble. The proper study of mankind is man. Swcet the hum of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. Days, months, years, and ages shall circle away. By torch and... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come ; 'Tis sweet to oe awaken'd by the lark, Or lull'd by falling waters ; sweet the hum Of bees, the voice or girls, the song of hirds, The lisp of children, and their earliest words. CXXIV. Sweet is the vintage,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1882 - 746 pages
...satisfaction, I should conceive," said Mr. Pickwick. But of Byron there is no doubt, if only for the line — Sweet the hum of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds. Nor of Shelley's ear for the divine strophe and antistrophe of Nature, the beautiful antiphony of shore... | |
 | National rifle assoc - 544 pages
...will mark Our coming and grow brighter when we come. 'Tis sweet to be awakened by the lark, Or lulled by falling waters ; sweet the hum Of bees, the voice of girls, the lisp Of children, and their earliest words. (Repeat two first lines.) [Enoch goes to window of cottage... | |
 | A. P. A. - Acrostics - 1869 - 226 pages
...blue." " Who whispers him so pantingly and close? • of all those His friends, the dearest." 1 . " Sweet the hum Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds, The • of children, and their earliest words." 2. " Alone, to the banks of the dark rolling Danube, Fair... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1869 - 922 pages
...Our !•. inniy, and look brighter when we c^ine ; T is sweet to be awuken'd by* the lark, Or liilPd by falling waters; sweet the hum Of bees, the voice of girls, the s-'ing of Mrdi, The lisp of children and their earliest words." 3. Spenstrian. "The Niob£ of nations... | |
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