 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!  Recreations of Christopher North - Page 101by John Wilson - 1857Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me! — My dear Babe, Who, capable...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... | |
 | 1799 - 614 pages
...pleasantly, And now for our dear homes.— That strain again ! Full faiq it would delay me !• — My dtar Babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...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... | |
 | 1799 - 618 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! — My dear Babe, Who, capable...with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beiide his ear, 31 is little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! — My dear Babe, Who, capable...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! — My dear Babe, Who, capable...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...have been 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...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... | |
 | 1851 - 696 pages
...infans,' addressed in hie father's poem ' The Nightingale.' . . ' That strain again ! Full fain would it delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his h;ind, beside his ear, His little hand, the small fore finger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...have been 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...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... | |
 | 1831 - 1008 pages
...quotes a few of Coleridge's beautiful lines to the Nightingale : — " That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound,' Mars all things with hist imitative lisp, How he would place his band beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear home. — That strain again! Full fain it would delay me! My dear Babe, Who, capable of no...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... | |
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