 The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower' that drinks the dew; And Lucy, at her wheel,...  Poems - Page 258by Samuel Rogers - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...drinks the dew ; And Lucy at her wheel shall sing In russet gown and apron blue. The village church, among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were...the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. ROGERS. PITY FOR POOR LITTLE SWEEPS. THE morn was dark, the wind was high, With many a gusty swell,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...sing In russet gown and apron blue. The village church among the trees, Where our first marriage vows were given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. To Rogers we must accord a true moral feeling. The cordial friend, the man of native literary sympathies... | |
 | William Ewart - Dictation (Educational method) - 1849 - 94 pages
...In russet gown and apron blue. 4. The village church among the trees, Where first our marriage vows were given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to Heaven. 125. — THE MORNING WALK. [THOMAS Oh ! ever after summer shower, When the bright sun's returning power... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...gown and apron blue. Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew; The village church among the trees, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. Where first our marriage-vows were given, MELANCHOLY. BEAUMONT. HENCE ! all you vain delights As short... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1851 - 328 pages
...near. Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivy'd-porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the...the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. TO TWO SISTERS* 1795. WELL may you sit within, and, fond of grief, Look in each other's face, and melt... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...sing In russet gown and apron blue. The village church, among the trees, Where first our marriage vows were given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. JAMES MONTGOMERY, 1771 JAMES MONTGOMERY, the author of the " Wanderer of Switzerland," " The West Indies,"... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...sing, In russet gown and apron blue. The village church, among the trees, Where first our marriage vows were given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. THE PLOUGHSHARE OF OLD ENGLAND. ELIZA COOR. THE sailor boasts his stately ship, the bulwark of the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew ; And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing In russet gown and apron blue. The village-church, among the trees,...the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. * In the gardens of the Vatican, where it was placed by Julius II., it was long the favourite study... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...drinks the dew ; And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing, In russet gown and apron blue. The village church, among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were...the breeze, And point with taper spire to Heaven. ROGERS. A LEGEND OF THE HIVE. BEHOLD those winged images ! Bound for their evening bowers: They are... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...sing In russet gown and apron blue. The village church, among the trees, Where first our marriage vows hasty flashes of contending steel Must serve instead of glances from my love, And for sof WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT, 1786. WHILE through the broken pane the tempest sighs, And my step falters on... | |
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