 | 1855 - 834 pages
...meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass, that skims the milky «lore, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots; By...notes. There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fale, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd... | |
 | William Collins - 1859 - 246 pages
...which thou sett'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, 20 iBeneath each birken shade, on mead or hill; There, each trim lass, that...door, . While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. ; 25 There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly,... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 pages
...to which thou sctt'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass, that...store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots; 3y night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There, every... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 pages
...to which thou sett'st thy feet ; Where still, 't is said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill ; There, each trim lass, that...the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy Jpowls allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | Edward Bradley - 1865 - 304 pages
...to which thou sett'st thy feet, Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There each trim lass that...their creamy bowls allots ; By night they sip it round rhe cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd, by sad experience, knows... | |
 | John Clark Murray - 1874 - 234 pages
...land to which thou sett'st thy feet Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There each trim lass, that...elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food forgoes, Or, stretched on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe the untutored swain... | |
 | 1871 - 586 pages
...Scotland and Ireland, were said to be arrow-heads shot by fairy bowmen against the lowing herds. "Thna every herd by sad experience knows How, winged with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly: When the iick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretched on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie." The female... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...or hill. VThere, each trim lass that skims the milky store f To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door,...elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food forgoes, Or, stretched on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe the untutored swain... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...to which thou set'st thy feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass that...skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pages
...mead or hill. There, each trim lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door,...elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food forgoes, Or, stretched on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe the untutored swain... | |
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There must thou wake perforce thy Doric quill; Tis Fancy's land to which thou sett'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart... 
