 | British birds - 1840 - 326 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love — • Still long'd for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet, Can lie upon the plain,...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again." The cuckoo visits this country about the middle of April, and tarries with us about four months. Its... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still long'd for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit... | |
 | Wood-notes - 1842 - 160 pages
...Though woods and on the green : And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still long'd for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet, Can lie upon the plain,...And listen till I do beget That golden time again. TO THE OWL. OWL ! that lovest the boding sky ; In the murky air, — What sawest thou there ? For I... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1842 - 468 pages
...hinges, and the quiet and solitary figure of Lady Vargrave threw its shadow over the grass. CHAPTER XIII. "And I can listen to thee yet, Can lie upon the plain...And listen till I do beget That golden time again." WORDSWORTH. IT was past midnight — hostess and guests had retired to repose — when Lady Vargrave's... | |
 | Children's literature - 1850 - 740 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And tin m wert mill a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet, Can lie upon the plain....And listen till I do beget That golden time again. Wordsworth. THAT APRIL FLOWER. WHEN Spring came o'er the meadows, And painted them with green, And... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - Children's literature - 1843 - 264 pages
...hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near 1 • The same which in my schoolboy days I listen'd to ; that cry Which made me look a thousand ways ;...listen, till I do beget That golden time again."— Wordsworth. Adam wanted to know the meaning of the word " blithe." His father told him it meant glad,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love — Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place, That is fit home... | |
 | England - Children's literature, English - 1844 - 506 pages
...From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near! " The same which in my schoolboy days I listened to ; that cry Which made me look a thousand...And listen till I do beget That golden time again." Adam thought it very pretty; all except the last part, which he did not understand. His father explained... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1844 - 858 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet, Can lie upon the plain, And listen till I do beget The golden time again. Wordsworth. from A SONG OF THE REBELLION OF 1569. FROM JAMIESON'B POPULAR BALLADS.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain...And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed Bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit... | |
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The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen.... 
