 | Alexander Jamieson - 1826 - 320 pages
...palumhes." Example 3. The two last lines are heautifully translated, and improved hy Shenstom; : *, I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where ,he mood-pgkous hreed: But let un- the plunder forhear. She will say ,twas a harharous deed." Ohs.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...its prettiness, though it be not equal to the former : — I have found out a gift for my fair ; 1 have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, ,i She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er c6uld be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor... | |
 | Legacy - 1827 - 332 pages
...strains of wild melody flow ! How the nightingales warble their loves From thickets of roses that blow ! And when her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall...and so clear As — she may not be fond to resign." DIDACTIC poetry embraces a vast scope of subject, for indeed it may be applied to almost any; but these... | |
 | William Cowper - 1879 - 88 pages
...following Vergil, make rustic lovers present their ladyloves with a bird's-nest. Cf. Shenstone— " I have found out a gift for my fair ! I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." 28 Dray. A local name for a squirrel's run or nest. 30-40 Greek legend abounds in instances of men... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...of wild melody flow! How the nightingales warble their loves From the thickets of roses that blow: And when her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall...soft and so clear As she may not be fond to resign. 5 I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me such plunder... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...of wild melody flow? How the nightingales warble their loves From the thickets of roses that blow ! ht 'twould win me That, with music loud and long,...would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those long, FIRESIDE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF POETRY. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...than my cattle unfold ; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me such plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he ne'er could be true, she averred,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...appear, Eacli bird shall harmoniously join In a concert BO soft aud so clear As— she may not be f oud to resign. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But lei me that plunder forbear, She will say, 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could l>e true, she... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1881 - 246 pages
...which Martin and he had nearly been drowned iu the yolk. CHAPTER IV. THE BIRD-FAHCIERS. I have fonnd out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me the plunder forbear, She would say 'twas a barbarous deed. BOWK. And now, my lad, take them five shilling,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1881 - 360 pages
...pastoral — "My banks they are furnished with bees," etc., till she came to — " I have found oitt a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." "There's some sense in that," cried the Doctor, who had been listening with great weariness. " You... | |
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I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed... 
