 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
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...marriage-vows were 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. Yestreen when to the trembling string In orange groves and myrtle bowers, That breathe a gale of fragrance... | |
 | Parke Godwin - 1883 - 466 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 Rogers. Yet, though the production of an immature... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1883 - 458 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 Rogers. Yet, though the production of an immature... | |
 | Frederick Bryon Norman - 1883 - 162 pages
...poetical name for valley. It is often used figuratively, for instance, nin this vale of tears." Ex.: Dear is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds...cot, she tells her tale To every passing villager. A Dale (AS dal, connected with daelan, to divide; Ger. Thai) is a small valley between hills, separating... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...treasure I Long should it glitter near my heart, A secret source of pensive pleasure. MY NATIVE VAL*. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds...from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty. Samuel Rogers. MEMORY. HAIL, Memory, hail ! in thy exhaustless mine, From age to age unnumbered treasures... | |
 | Joseph Hirst Lupton - 1885 - 252 pages
...Halicut. 97. 14. "Never," non unquam. 16. " Invoking curses on," dira prceatus, with dot. EXERCISE XXXII. 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, And shells... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...creature is guiding Wisely and warily — All for the best ! 47.— MY NATIVE VALE.— Samuel Rogers. 1 Dear is my little native vale ! The ring-dove builds and murmurs there ; close to my cot she tells her tale to every passing villager. The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, and shells... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...the twilight hours, And shakes the fragrant bells of closing flowers. DEAR IS MY LITTLE NATIVE VALE. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds and murmurs there ; Close hy my cot she tells her tale To every passing villager; The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. CCCXVII. 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, And shells... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - London (England) - 1889 - 490 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 day."—Ever... | |
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