 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 M'Gavin (editor of The union school song garland) - 1879 - 84 pages
...budding, and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. The wolcoine guest of settled spring, The swallow, too, is come...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... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1879 - 376 pages
...bear the wreath, The silver wreath, of May. The welcome guest of settled Spring, The swallow, too, has come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing,...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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Nature's charms to feed, And Nature's own great God adore. CHARLES SPRAGUE. THE SWALLOW. THE gorse hrough joy and through torment, through glory and...thy Angel in moments of bliss, And thy Angel 1 11 hailed her as she passed. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed-roof thy n 4t of clay, And let my... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1881 - 244 pages
...the wreath, The silver wreath, of May. The welcomed guest of settled Spring, The swallow, too, has come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing,...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,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1881 - 704 pages
...guest of settled Spring, The Swallow, too, is come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, 1 saw her dash with rapid wing, And hail'd her as she pass'd. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed-roof your nest of clay, And let my ear your music catch, Low twittering underneath the thatch,... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1882 - 376 pages
...bear the wreath, The silver wreath, of May. The welcome guest of settled Spring, The swallow, too, has come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing,...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,... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 200 pages
...countenance adhered surprised timidity congregation vibration committed necessary supposing creating The welcome guest of settled spring, The swallow,...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... | |
 | Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...the wreath — The silver wreath of May. The welcome guest of settled spring, The swallow, too, has come at last; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dart with rapid wing, And hailed her as she past. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed roof your... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 192 pages
...the wreath, The silver wreath, of May. 2. The welcome guest of settled Spring, The swallow, too, has come at last ; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing,...saw her dash with rapid wing, And hail'd her as she passed. 3. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed roof your nest of clay, And let my ear your music... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...for variety and profusion. THE BOYAL GALLERY. THE SWALLOW. gorse is yellow on the heath, The hanks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding;...as she pass'd. Come, summer visitant, attach To my reed-roof your nest of clay; And let my car your music catch, Low twittering underneath the thatch,... | |
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