 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view...  Poems - Page 45by John W. Curtis - 1846 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...: Per flammas tua pone seqvi vestigia, teqve Eripere, aut tecum dent mihi fata mori. Caledonia. О Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stem and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I Jove them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow^s stream still let me stray, Though none... | |
 | Walter Scott - Love poetry, Scottish - 1807 - 382 pages
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus l love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, 6 Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene, — Think what is now and what has been, — Seems as to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left ; And then I love thee better still, E'en in extremity of ill." Conjugal love, as the doctrine... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial hand, That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view...well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath heen, Seems as, to me, of all hereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...me lo thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now. and what hatb been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. Land of brown beath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,...Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods anil streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 582 pages
...wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the Glial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as...of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream slid let... | |
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