 The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. The welcome guest of settled Spring...  Beachy Head: With Other Poems - Page 79by Charlotte Smith - 1807 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1868 - 592 pages
...peculiar and beautiful versification. " Tho welcome guest ot settled spring, The swallow, too, has come at last ! Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed." Cuvier, the great naturalist, in his later years loved to recount the incident... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...and suspended rhyme.) The welcome guest of settled spring, The swallow, too, is come at last ; Jnst at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. CHAHI.OTTE SMITH. 22. — STANZA OP FIVE LINES, 6-5, AND ONE 12. (Alternate... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1870 - 208 pages
...vanity and conceit.' THE FIRST SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speed- well flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and beneath....thrushes sing, I saw her dash with ra.pid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed roof your nest of clay, And let... | |
 | Charles Leeson Prince - Climatic changes - 1871 - 270 pages
...time to time Looks back; while at his keen and chilling breath Fair Flora sickens." Spril. " The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers...thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitant, attach To my old roof your nest of clay, And let my... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...visit o'er the globe, Companion of the Spring. CHARLOTTE SMITH. 1749—1806. THE SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers...thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitants, attach To my reed roof your nest of clay, And let... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...silver wreath of May. 340 317 The welcome guest of settled spring, The swallow too is come at hist ; are sound, And she may lloat again, Full charged with England's thunder hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed-roof your nest of elay, And let... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...livelong night ! Heber. THE FIRST SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath ; The banks' with speed- well flowers are gay ; The oaks are budding, and beneath,...thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she past. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed roof your nest of clay, And let my... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...Nature's charms to feed, And Nature's own great God adore. CHARLES SPRAGUE. THE SWALLOW. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers...thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed-roof thy nest of clay, And let my... | |
 | Samuel Manning - English poetry - 1880 - 260 pages
...more, Swelling through store, Forfeit their Paradise by their pride. THE FIRST SWALLOW. yR ppHE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers...thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed. Come, Summer visitant, attach To my reed roof your nest of clay, And let... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...fatts, casks 41 wheaten, straw 45 neat, oxen 47 rtnahe, call back •37* THE FIRST SWALLOW THE gorse is yellow on the heath ; The banks with speedwell...saw her dash with rapid wing, And hail'd her as she past. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed roof your nest of clay, And let my ear your music catch,... | |
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