ALL through the sultry hours of June, From morning blithe to golden noon, And till the star of evening climbs The gray-blue East, a world too soon, There sings a Thrush amid the limes. Temple Bar - Page 1541864Full view - About this book
| 1882 - 858 pages
...address to a Thresh, which made its home in the row of limes round his garden : All through the snltry hours of June, From morning blithe to golden noon,...world too soon, There sings a Thrush amid the limes. God'a poet, hid in foliage green, Sings endless songs, himself unseen ; Right seldom come his silent... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1902 - 884 pages
...of Mortimer Collins's lines to a thrush singing in the lime-trees — often would we say with him : God's poet hid in foliage green Sings endless songs...come his silent times. Linger, ye summer hours serene I Sing on, dear thrush, amid the limes ! Thou mellow angel of the air I Closer to God art thou than... | |
| Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 206 pages
...their strictures : She's a delicious picture, Kate— So why should she paint pictures ? MY THRUSH. i ALL through the sultry hours of June, From morning...world too soon, There sings a Thrush amid the limes. II God's poet, hid in foliage green, Sings endless songs, himself unseen ; Right seldom come his silent... | |
| Mortimer Collins - English poetry - 1871 - 210 pages
...star of evening climbs The gray-blue East, a world too soon, There sings a Thrush amid the limes. II God's poet, hid in foliage green, Sings endless songs,...hours serene ! Sing on, dear Thrush, amid the limes ! 1 82 My Thrush. in Nor from these confines wander out, Where with old gun bucolic lout Commits all... | |
| Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 208 pages
...star of evening climbs The gray-blue East, a world too soon, There sings a Thrush amid the limes. n God's poet, hid in foliage green, Sings endless songs,...unseen ; Right seldom come his silent times. Linger, pye summer hours serene ! Sing on, dear Thrush, amid the limes ! in Nor from these confines wander... | |
| 1877 - 832 pages
...better-known poem, "My Thrush," (published in Temple Bar in August, 1864,) which is full of deeper feeling:— All through the sultry hours of June, From morning...golden noon, And till the star of evening climbs The grey-blue East, a world too soon, There sings a Thrush amid the limes. God's poet, hid in foliage green,... | |
| University magazine - 1877 - 814 pages
...poem, "My Thrush," (published in Temple Bar in August, 1864,) which is full of deeper feeling : — All through the sultry hours of June, From morning...golden noon, And till the star of evening climbs The grey-blue East, a world too soon, There sings a Thrush amid the limes. God's poet, hid in foliage green,... | |
| Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 258 pages
...cherry-tree in the garden which the birds regularly stripped, and he delighted in seeing them do it. All through, the sultry hours of June, From morning...golden noon, And till the star of evening climbs The grey-blue East, a world too soon, There sings a Thrush amid the limes. God's poet, hid in foliage green,... | |
| Mrs. Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 502 pages
...minstrel of the air who brought me divine music in the fairest days of a delicious year. Ha sang " All through the sultry hours of June, From morning blithe to golden noon." . * I think his progeny must have increased and multiplied, thanks to my regular fights against the... | |
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