 | 1803 - 400 pages
...unfavourable idea of the talent of the youth who could write it at the *ge of thirteen : — TO AX EARLY PRIMROSE. Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Whose modest form, so delicately fine. Was nurs'd in whirling storms < And cradled in the winds. Xhee, when young spring first question'd winter's... | |
 | Women - 1822 - 634 pages
...sigh from her bosom, a tear from her eye. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE, BY THE LATE HENRY !. I nh I WHITE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms, And cradled by the winds. ~ Thee, when young spring first question'd winter's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...walls, no cell confin'd, Can cramp the energies of mind ! Thus, though my heart may seem so small, I've friends, and 'twill contain them all ; And should...sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young spring first question'd winter's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...dungeon's walls, no cell confin'd, Can cramp the energies of mind ! Thus, though my heart may seem so smaH, I've friends, and 'twill contain them all ; And should...blessings give ; I shall not then be fit to live. E2 TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 544 pages
...walls, no cell confin'd, Can cramp the energies of mind I Thus, though my heart may seem so small, I've friends and 'twill contain them all ; " And should...her blessings give, I shall not then be fit to live. F. 2 TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...light Brighten up the delug'd plains, And the bell fron^ yonder height, TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. WHITE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young Spring first question'd Winter's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 336 pages
...; Can cramp the energies of mind I •.•.••' ,:\, .. Thus, though my heart may seem so small, I've friends, and 'twill contain them all ; And should...longer hold, ..>!>!. No more may heaven her blessings give,r > .• J shall not then be fit to live. • • i •&.. •>',•' •• > . It ri . '••.•I... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...walls, no cell confin'd, Can cramp the energies of mind ! Thus, though my heart may seem so small, I've friends, and 'twill contain them all ; And should it e'er become so cold That these it will uo longer hold, No more may heaven her blessings give, I shall oot then be fit to live. TO AN EARLY... | |
 | United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...POETRY. SELECTED. [The following lines were written by HKMRY KIBKE WHITE, at tlie ag« of thirteen.] TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and...sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Wa» nurs'd in whirling storms And cradled in the wind. Thee, when young Spring first question'd Winter's... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...me clothing, food, employ ! Look down, dear parents; look, and see, Your happy, happy orphan boy. f TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire, Whose modest form is delicately tine ! Was nurs'd in whirling storms, And cradled in the wind. Thee, when young spring... | |
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twill well contain The ideal flights of Madam Brain. No dungeon's walls, no cell confined, Can cramp the energies of mind ! I've friends, and 'twill contain them all ; And should it e'er become so cold That these it will no longer hold, No more may Heaven... 
