 The ring-dove builds and murmurs there; Close by my cot she tells her tale To every passing villager : The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty. In orange groves and myrtle bowers, That breathe a gale of fragrance round, I...  Poems - Page 199by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter William Clayden - London (England) - 1889 - 502 pages
...on you to-morrow will be the first, as it is always the happiest, of my duties. I have been where ' The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty ; not even then without regretful thoughts of the better freedom of " St. James's Grove at blush of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 482 pages
...ourmarriage-vowswerc given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. ITALIAN SONG. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove...from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty. In orange groves and myrtle bowers, That breathe a gale of fragrance round, I charm the fairy-looted hours... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 460 pages
...ourmarriage-vowsweregiven, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. ITALIAN SONG. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove...cot she tells her tale To every passing villager. vent: SONGS OF THREE CENTURIES. The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty.... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1890 - 452 pages
...familiar to our grandmothers : — " ' Dear is my little native vale : The ring-dove builds and warbles there ; Close by my cot she tells her tale, To every...from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty.' " ' I wrote that song at sixteen years of age,' said Mr. Rogers. Yet, though the production of an immature... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 458 pages
...given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. ITALIAN soya. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds...cot she tells her tale To every passing villager. fed, Tiic squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty. In orange groves and myrtle... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1890 - 380 pages
...familiar to our grandmothers : — "' Dear is my little native vale : The ring-dove builds and warbles there; Close by my cot she tells her tale, To every...The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuta at liberty.' "' I wrote that song at sixteen years of age,' said Mr. Rogers. Yet, though the production... | |
 | JOHN BIGELOW - 1890 - 456 pages
...grandmothers : — "' Dear is my little native vale: The ring-dove builds and warbles there; Close by ray cot she tells her tale, To every passing villager....from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty.' "' I wrote that song at sixteen years of age,' said Mr. Rogers. Yet, though the production of an immature... | |
 | 1890 - 438 pages
...on you to-morrow will be the first, as it is alsvays the happiest, of my duties. 1 have been where " The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty," * not even then without regretful thoughts of the better freedom of " St. James's grove at blush of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. AN ITALIAN SONG. 1793. EAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds and...And shells his nuts at liberty. In orange-groves and myrtle -bowers, That breathe a gale of fragrance round, I charm the fairy -footed hours With my loved... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 458 pages
...ccxcvn. AN ITALIAN SONG. DEAR is my little native vale, The ringdove builds and murmurs there ; Close to my cot she tells her tale To every passing villager. The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, In orange-groves and myrtle-bowers, That breathe a gale of fragrance round, I charm the fairy-footed... | |
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