 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
 | Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 pages
...many an azure wave With which the clouds and mountains pave A lake's blue chasm. PB Shelley. CANZONET. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds...And shells his nuts at liberty. In orange-groves and myrtle-bow'rs, That breathe a gale of fragrance round, I charm the fairy-footed hours With my loved... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...wave With which the clouds and mountains pave A lake's blue chasm. PB Shellry. 2O8 CANZONET. CANZONET. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds...And shells his nuts at liberty. In orange-groves and myrtle-bow'rs, That breathe a gale of fragrance round, I charm the fairy-footed hours With my loved... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...crowns of living lanrel weave there; ™" "---- -L-- — :- -"- — 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. For those that win the race at eve. The shepherd's horn at break of day, The ballet danced in twilight... | |
 | Choice poems - English poetry - 1879 - 206 pages
...known except that he was one of the proprietors of the Birmingham Daily Chronicle. MY NATIVE VALE. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds and murmurs there ; Close to my cot she tells her tale, To ev'ry passing villager. The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...spring-lock that lay in auibueh there, Fastened her down for ever 1 120 [TO 183* ;fcar to mv little Dative vale, The ring-dove builds and murmurs there; Close by my cot she tells her tale To every parsing villager. The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And sbtiUfl his nuts at liberty. ID orange... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...my loved lute's romnntic sound, | The ring-dove builds and murmurs Or crowns of living laurel weave there; " " ' " Close by my cot she tells her tale To every passing villager. The squirrel U'ap* from tree to tree, Aud shells his nuts at liberty. For those that win the race at eve. The shepherd's... | |
 | Harriet Russell - Children's literature, English - 1880 - 136 pages
...our village, singing as I went— " Dear is my little native vale; The ringdove builds and warbles there; Close by my cot. she tells her tale To every passing villager." I had sent word that I might be expeoted that morning; so I was not very much surprised when, about... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...us journey together, Where glad innocence reigns 'Mang the braes o' Balquhither. ROBERT TASNAHII.L. is found Least willing still to quit the ground :...sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life myrtle bowers, That breathe a gale of fragrance round. I charm the fairy-footed hours With my loved... | |
 | Beata Francis - Animal behavior - 1881 - 280 pages
...it very prettily in this verse : — 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. These little creatures are, it must be confessed, more ornamental than useful ; indeed, they have the... | |
 | Theodore Compton - Mendip Hills (England) - 1882 - 224 pages
...the woods and coppices, where we could say with Rogers — The ring-dove builds and murmurs there, The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty. The pretty little mischievous Weasel may often be seen crossing the road. The Polecat is fortunately... | |
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