 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...she to clothe her heart with love, ' ' 0 tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown : Say to her, 1 do but wanton in the South, But in the North long since my nest is made. ' ' 0 tell her, brief is life, but love is long, And brief the sun of summer in the North, And brief... | |
 | Stephen Dowell - 1876 - 418 pages
...not exist in barbarous countries. It is a late product of civilization, very tardy in development, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green, and its commencement in this country dates in effect from the times of the Commonwealth. If, therefore,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green * " 0 tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown : Say to...South, But in the North long since my nest is made. "0 tell her, brief is lifebutloveislong, And brief thesunof summerin the North, And brief the moon... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 104 pages
...heart Would rock the snowy cradle till I died. • Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green ? 0 tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown : Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...and her heart Would rock the snowy cradle till I died ! lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green ? "0 tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown: Say to her, 1 do but wanton in the South, But in the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 pages
...her heart Wonld rock the suowy cradle till I died. "Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with !оre, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods arc green ? "O tell her, Swallow, that thy hrood is flown: Say to her, l dn hnt wanton ln the Sonth,... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...herself, when all the woods are green ? " О tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown : Say to her, l do but wanton in the South, But in the North long since my nest is made " О tell her, brief is life but love is long, And brief the sun of summer in the North. And brief... | |
 | 1879 - 762 pages
...the last is seen of the ash-tree. The ash-tree is always the last to come and go. Tennyson says : ' Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself when all the woods are green.' Directly the summer weather breaks up the tourists scatter; but if they had only waited patiently there... | |
 | 1879 - 772 pages
...seen of the ash-tree. The ash-tree is always the last to come and go. Tennyson says : ' Delaying ns the tender ash delays To clothe herself when all the woods are green." Directly the summer weather breaks up the tourists scatter ; but if they had only waited patiently... | |
 | Henry Arthur Bright - 1879 - 142 pages
...light of waxen blossom. The Elms came next, the Limes, the Beeches, and then the Oaks. Yet still " the tender Ash delays To clothe herself when all the woods are green," and is all bare as in mid-winter. This, however, if the adage about the Oak and the Ash be true, should... | |
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O, were I thou that she might take me in, And lay me on her bosom, and her heart Would rock the snowy cradle till I died! Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green? 
