 But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, And behind does an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below. A traveller came to the Well of St. Keyne...  Selected Poems of Robert Southey - Page 285by Robert Southey - 1888 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...all your might — pull away — that's the way we fight ! " THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE. — (Southey.} A WELL there is in the west country, and a clearer...has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, and behind does an ash-tree grow, and a willow from the bank above droops to... | |
 | Marlborough College (Marlborough, England). Natural History Society - 1877 - 606 pages
...couple should first drink of it was to enjoy domestic sovereignty afterwards. Spoken of by Sonthey as " A well there is in the west country And a clearer...has heard of the well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, And behind doth an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above, Droops to... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...drink thereof, they get the mastery thereby." — FULLER. A WELL there is in the West country, Aud a clearer one never was seen ; There is not a wife...country But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak anil an elm tree stand beside, And behind does an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1879 - 448 pages
...Scott Header, Nelson's Royal School Series, p. 163, Note 40.) THE WELL OF ST. EEYNE. A WELL there is_ in the west country, And a clearer one never was seen...; There is not a wife in the west country But has heard1 of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm tree stand And behind does an ash tree grow ; And... | |
 | James Booth (head master of the Caledonian schools, Liverpool) - 1881 - 232 pages
...biography, his ' Life of Nelson ' being one of the f1nest biographies iu our language. He died in 1843. A wELL there is in the west country, And a clearer...; There is not a wife in the west country But has heart! of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an el1n tree stand beside, And behind docs an ash tree... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 200 pages
...but gently, as the trees Are, by the sunbeams, tickled by degrees. 78 The Well of St. Keyne. CXLVIII. THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE. A WELL there is in the West...has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elmtree stand beside, And behind doth an ashtree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - 1893 - 196 pages
...Poems (1815), iii. 153. The Ballad 150-161). The following is a transcript of Southey's lines : — "THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE. A Well there is in the west...has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, And behind does an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 548 pages
...life of Pitman is one uninterrupted condition of bliss. THE WELL ОГ ST. KEYNE. [By KÖDERT SOCTHET.] WELL there is in the west country, And a clearer one...But has heard of the well of St Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, And behind doth an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to... | |
 | English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...the watchful night, 20 For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight ? SOUTHEY. TILE WELL OF ST. KEYNE. A WELL there is in the west country,...has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, 5 And behind doth an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...JG LOCKHART. Spanish Ballads. (Warne.) THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE. A WELL there is in the west-country, And a clearer one never was seen ; There is not a wife in the west-country But has heard of the well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm tree stand beside, And behind... | |
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