 A Wish MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the...  The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems - Page 151by Samuel Rogers - 1810 - 167 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...I'll woo thee till thy soft eyes tell — Thy heart now feels the magic spell. A WISH. Rogers. Mm E be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall sooth my ear ; A willing brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linge r nea The swallow, oft beneath the thatch,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1834 - 330 pages
...Praxiteles, if we may believe an ancient epigram on the Gnidian Venus. Analecta Vet. Poctarum, III. 200. i A WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's...turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivy'd porch shall... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 238 pages
...picturesque. The scene is truly English, and breathes an air of pastoral poetry: it reminds us of the " brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near." — Rogers. FORT ROUGE, CALAIS. • D. COX. THE approach to Calais must be fresh in the memory of a... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...Ah, fallen rose ! sad emblem of their doom; Frail as thy self, they perish while they bloom ! L1V. A WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...gore. Hark, thy shrill horn its fearful lamín flings ! — I wake in horror, and dare sleep no more ! A WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 790 pages
...paint the spot : — " Mine be a cot beeide the hill— • Л beehive's hum «hall soothe my car ; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near :" &C. But when he came to the Stanza — "And Lncy at her wheel shall sing, In russet-gown and apron... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 428 pages
..."Wish," which paint the spot : — " Mine be a cot beside the hill — A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shalHinger near :" &c. But when he came to the Stanza— " And Lucy at her wheel shall sing, la russet-gown... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...horror, and dare sleep no more ! A WISH. MINE be a coj beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. * Alluding to some versos which she had written on an Ider sister, i luscribed on an urn in the flower-garden... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...the dust Oppression shall be hurl'd, Her name, her nature, wither'd from the world ! CAMPBELL. THE WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 458 pages
...Wish, " which paint the spot : — " Mine be a cot beside the hill — A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near :" &c. But when he came to the stanza — " And Lucy at her wheel shall sing, In russet-gown and apron... | |
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