 These trees, a veil just half withdrawn; This fall of water, that doth make A murmur near the silent lake; This little bay, a quiet road That holds in shelter thy abode; In truth together...  No. 1- no. 50 - Page 232edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
 | August Gottlieb Meissner - 1784 - 630 pages
...before our view without, and ever grew stiller and darker : But she gave me the book, and I read : Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head: And these gray rocks, that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...state ; And cheers thy melancholy Mate ! 6. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond. ) Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray Rocks ; this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...state; And cheers thy melancholy Mate ! 22 • 0. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (At Inwrsneyde, upon Loch Lomond.) Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray Rocks; this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...THE IMAGINATION CONTINUED. VOL. II. XVIII. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond.) SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray Rocks ; this... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...IMAGINATION CONTINUED. VOL. II. -Hf XVIII. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond.) SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : ,j And these gray Rocks... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...slake Their thirst in Tyrants' blood ! XXI. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (At Inversncydc, upon Loch Lomond.) SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty- is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray Rocks ; this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...deface it, And its forlorn Hie JACET ! IV. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (AT INVERSNEYDE, UPOK LOCH LOMOND.) SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray Rocks ; this... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...and bright With something of an angel light. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (AT INVER8NEYDE, UPON LOCH LOMOND.) SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray Rocks, this... | |
 | 1831 - 62 pages
...formed by the water of Arkill, a spot where Wordsworth penned one of his most beautiful poems: — Sweet Highland Girl! a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower: Yes, I am loth, nor pleas'd at heart, O Mountain Maid ! from tbee to part. But I, methinks, till I... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...maid conceal'd, Yet not less purely felt, the flame; — Oh need I tell that passion's name ! SCoTT. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray rocks ; this... | |
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