 | Mary Bristow Wood - Natural history - 1845 - 120 pages
...poetry entitled " The Homes of England," how different ours are to those we should find abroad:— " The merry homes of England, Around their hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love Rest in the ruddy light I" Pupil: Ah ! indeed, there is no country like happy England. Pupil: I suppose... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...its dark tenement." B* '• The stately homes of England, how beautiful they stand, Amidst the tail ancestral trees, o'er all the pleasant land ; The deer across their green-sward bound in shade and sunny gleam, Aid swans glide past them with the sound of some rejoicing stream." HEMANS.... | |
 | Gallery - 1848 - 306 pages
...the same, Thou ever-sounding sea ! RABY CASTLE. " The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all...and sunny gleam ; And the swan glides past them with a sound Of some rejoicing stream." MRS. HEHANS. RABY CASTLE, situated within the parish of Staindrop,... | |
 | James Larkin (of Woolwich.) - 1849 - 164 pages
...said or sung. Tune — " Ye Gentlemen of England." " The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all...past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream." HEMANS. Saint George of " merrie Englande," Give ear unto my cry ; Your waving yellow harvest fields,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...MRS. HEMANS. How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees THE stately Homes of England! O'er all the pleasant land! The deer across their...some rejoicing stream. The merry Homes of England! Meet in the ruddy light! There woman's voice flows forth in song, Around their hearths by night, What... | |
 | Brandiport - 1849 - 164 pages
...more attractions for him than any place where he goes or to which he is invited. We may truly say— " The merry homes of England, Around their hearths by...looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light." My husband's temperament and mine are a good deal different. He is too prone to look at the dark, I... | |
 | Anne (Aunt.) - Christian life - 1849 - 440 pages
...privileged, than that of an English country gentleman. " The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall, ancestral trees, O'er all...the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward hound, • Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - Animals - 1840 - 274 pages
...ignorance and false enthusiasm. THE HOMES OF ENGLAND. The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across the greenwood bound, Through shade and sunny gleam ; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1850 - 292 pages
...not dare To fight for such a land ? " — MARMION. THE stately homes of England ! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all...hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told, Or lips move tunefully along... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1850 - 418 pages
...bravest ! thou art gone ! " THE HOMES OF ENGLAND. THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all...hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love (113) There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told, Or lips move tunefully... | |
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THE stately homes of England ! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam ; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing... 
