 These trees, a veil just half withdrawn; This fall of water, that doth make A murmur near the silent lake; This little bay, a quiet road That holds in shelter thy abode; In truth together...  No. 1- no. 50 - Page 232edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 236 pages
...waters into the loch, forming a picturesque water-fall. Here is the scene of Wordsworth's poem to the " Highland Girl." " Sweet Highland girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower. And those grey rocks, that household lawn, Those trees, a veil just half withdrawn, — This fall of... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1838 - 742 pages
...unpretending and well executed production. The verses are worthy of a volume in elephantine folio. " Sweet Highland girl ! a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower. Yes, I am loth, nor pleased at heart, O Mountain Maid ! from thee to part. But I, methinks, till I... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Interpersonal relations - 1840 - 322 pages
...happy in making his pictures stand out on his poetical canvass. Take any age. The girl of fourteen. " Sweet Highland girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! A face with gladness overspread ! Sweet looks by human kindness bred, And seemliness complete, that... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! VOL. II.— DD TO A HIGHLAND OIRL. SWEET Highland girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray rocks, this... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1850 - 556 pages
...respectable — the descendants of the celebrated Lord President FORBES ! " When WORDSWORTH apostrophises his Highland Girl— " Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower," — the dowry of lilies and roses is of allowed value in verse ; but not worth a bawbee when estimated... | |
 | English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! VOL. II.— DD TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. SWEET Highland girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these gray rocks, this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...hand deface it, And its forlorn íihc j VI. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (AT INVFHSNEYDE, UPON LOCH LOMOND.) SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these grey rocks ; that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...lake, and proceeds to the westward by the head of Loch Long, and so into Argyllshire. At Iversnaid mill there is a little cataract, the scene alluded...— " Sweet Highland girl ! a very shower Of beauty i - thy earthly dower." On the heights above, beside the way to Loch Katrine, are the remains of Iversnaid... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. Sweet Highland girl! a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And those gray rocks; that... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...dying day. " The following Poem was written by William not long after our return from Scotland : ' Sweet Highland girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these grey rocks ; this... | |
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