 | John Wilson - 1870 - 722 pages
...Remember Coleridge's beautiful lip» to the Nightingale : — "That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...things with his imitative lisp, How he would place hi« hand beeide his ear, His little hand, the email forefinger up, And bid us listen! and I deem it... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again! Full fain it would k, in humblo I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. Ho knows well The evening-star ; and onco when he awoko... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's Play-mate. He knows well The evening-star ; and once, when he awoke... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's play-mate. He knows well The evening-star ; and once, when he awoke... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, * As if one quick and sudden gale had swept His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 408 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, * As if one quick and sudden gale had swept An hundred airy harps ! 1798-1817. His little hand, the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1878 - 450 pages
...Remember Coleridge's beautiful lines to the Nightingale : — " That strain again ! Pull fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...forefinger up, And bid us listen ! and 1 deem it wise i To make him, Nature's child." How we come to love the Birds of Bewick, and White, and the two Wilsons,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! ' My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening-star ; and once when he awoke... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...pleasantly, And now for onr dear homes. — That strain again! Fall fain it would delay me ! My dear habe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening-star ; and once when he awoke... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1880 - 512 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's play-mate. He knows well The evening-star ; and once, when he awoke... | |
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Full fain it would delay me! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen! 
