 There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 5471897Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 532 pages
...elegant. The present, at this season, reminds of Gray's stanza omitted from his elegy : ' Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble bere, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...to Mr. Gray, he inscribed this stanza from the celebrated elegy : Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps liyhtly print the ground. Mr. Mason married in 1765 a most amiable woman... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...eyes pursue the setting sua. found ; s . t In early editions this fine stanza preceded the epitaph : ; No more the summer in thy glooms allayed, Thy evening breezes, aud thy noonday shade fouu The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...place. The lines, however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; study, and with no other book than an English Testament, such as children carry to the school ; when... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 528 pages
...of Gray's stanza omitted from his elegy : ' Here scalter'd oft. the eartttit of the year, By hnnd« h and ridicule compels me to deprive the reader of some of ils most amusing passa here, And little fooUtepi lightly print the ground.' As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1831 - 572 pages
...The present, at Ibis season, reminds one of Gray's stanza, omitted from big elegy. ' Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found; The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 622 pages
...The present, at this season, reminds one of G my 's stanza, omitted from his elegy : ' Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-hreasts loves to huild and warhle here. And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' As fine... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1832 - 380 pages
...which was suggested to me by a withered nosegay of pinks and roses that lay on the " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." As we sate there unseen and silent I heard a succession of deep sighs, almost amounting to groans,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye year, By hands unseen are frequent vi'lets found ; The robin loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' In the summer of 1759, Gray lodged at Mr Jauncey's, in Southampton Row, Blooms bury, to bo near the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...sea-coal fires, the " earliest of the year;"(') (1) f." Gray's omitted stanza — ' Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' is as fine as any in the Elegy. I wonder that... | |
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