 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 358 pages
...following : — Like a. purple beech among the greens Looks out of place. — Edwin Morris. Or Delays as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green. — The Princess. As black as ash-buds in the front of March. • — The Gardener's Daughter. A gusty... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 392 pages
...following:— Or Like a. purple beech among the greens Looks out of place. —Edwin Morris. Delays as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green. —The Princess. As black as ash-buds in the front of March. —The Gardener's Daughter. A gusty April... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 996 pages
...heart with love, Delaying at) the tender aah delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green I " O tell her, Swallow, that thy brood Is flown: Say to her, I do hut wanton in the South, But in the North long since my noftt is made. "O tell her, brief is life but... | |
 | Annie Oakes Huntington - 1901 - 390 pages
...slowly. Tennyson also noted this characteristic : — " Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green ? " The rare fitness of this simile might pass unheeded if we did not study trees first and poetry... | |
 | 1901 - 476 pages
...(Fraxinus) Then rears the ash his airy crest. — SCOTT. Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green. —TENNYSON. A laggard still, though other trees Have donned their vernal liveries, The dainty ash... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 pages
...me in, And lay me on her bosom, and her heart 85 " Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself,...green ? " O tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown : 90 Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in the North long since my nest is made. " O tell... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 170 pages
...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 ? »o " O tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown : Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in the... | |
 | Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger - 1902 - 508 pages
...once we are struck by many signs of advance since our ramble of a month ago. True it is that — " The tender ash delays To clothe herself when all the woods are green," and her lissom olive-grey branches are still destitute of leaves ; but the buds that were so black... | |
 | Maud Going - 1903 - 384 pages
...the ash," that is, may you live in a fertile and Well-watered country. Tennyson's oft-quoted lines, " delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself when all the woods are green," were written of the English spring. In our woods the ash is by no means the latest of the trees. The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 pages
...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? 15 O tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown : Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in... | |
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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? 
