 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
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 pages
...infans," addressed in his father's poem " The Nightingale." " That strain again ! Full fain would it delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...us listen ! And 1 deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate." With her youthful playmate Nature played long ; and he never ceased to find solace both... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 426 pages
...strain his father addresses him in the poem entitled "The Nightingale."* " That strain again ? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear Babe, Who, capable of...the small fore-finger 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 - 640 pages
...strain again ! Full fain would it delay шe ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, íl:n- all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place...the small fore-finger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wiso To make him Nature's playmate. With her youthful playmate Nature played long ; and he... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 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 In most distressful mood (some inward pain Had... | |
 | 1853 - 560 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 728 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
...ottr ctear homes.-— ThalwtoiH; again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable<wf no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative...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 8nce, when he awoke... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 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...lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, ffi« little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Pull 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... | |
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