 | American poetry - 1864 - 334 pages
...evening traveller feels The fears of wary age. ROBERT SOUTHEY, 1776-1843. A WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ;...from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift th6 latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower... | |
 | Easy rhymes - Children's poetry, English - 1864 - 176 pages
...and never wants. WILLIAMS. A WISH. MINE be a cot beside a hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe rny ear ; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many...swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-builfc nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal — a welcome guest. Around... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 pages
...heaven. HAWKSHAW.* 30.— A WISH. Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A beehive's hum shall soothe mine eat ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall,...latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivy'd porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew; And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...and still loves, — not dead, but gone before, — He gathers round him. Ibid. Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. A Wish. That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the... | |
 | Book - Ballads, English - 1865 - 308 pages
...burghers of Carlisle. THE WISH. be a eot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willow brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thateh Shall twitter from her elay-built nest-, OA shall the pilgrim lift the lateh, And share my meal,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...touch his sleeping eyes, and feel his little silvery feet. T. MOORE 332 A WISH MINE be a cot beside the hill; a bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; a...latch and share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivy'd porch shall spring each fragrant flower that drinks the dew ; and Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Clergy - 1866 - 436 pages
...very complete picture of cottage life in his little poem, which thus sets out — Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear : A...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. We mention all these, not, of course, as a thousandth part of what our literature contains of country... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1867 - 360 pages
...forward, tho' I canna see, On prospects drear ! I guess and fear. R. Barns A A WISH Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A...lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Ana .Lucy, at her wheel, shall. In russet-gown and apron blue. The village-church among the trees,... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - English language - 1868 - 298 pages
...heaven. HAWKSHAWE.* 30.— A WISH. Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A beehive's hum shall soothe mine ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many...lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. * Mrs. ANN HAWKSHAWE, a living authoress, has written " Poems for my Children," from which this is... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a man. Gray. XLI. A WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ;...thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft ihall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall spring... | |
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WISH MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... 
