 O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green, The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2671809Full view - About this book
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...thickening, green; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd, amorous, round the raptur'd scene, The flowers sprang, wanton, to be prest, The birds...on every spray, Till too, too soon the glowing west Proclaim'tl the speed of winged day. 2 Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappear'd Into thin... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...thick'ning, green ; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...on every spray, Till too, too soon the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of parting day. Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, Time but the impression... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...woods, thick'ning, green The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd am'rous round the raptur'd scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene. The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...thick'ning green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined am'rous round the raptured scene ; The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray — Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day. " Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...thickening, green, The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene. " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang...every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day! " Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...woods' thick'ning green; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the rapmr'd scene. The flowers sprang— wanton to be prest, The birds...every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods, with... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...woods' thick'nins green j The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptur'd scene The flowers sprang— wanton to be prest, The birds...every spray. Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my raem'ry wakes, And fondly broods, with... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...to be prest, The blrdi sang love—on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my...wakes. And fondly broods, with miser care! Time, but the impression deeper makes, As streams—their channels deeper wear. My Mary : dear departed shade... | |
 | 1845 - 864 pages
...exquisite effusion of pathos and feeling, ' To Mary in Heaven,' Burns uses a very fine image : — Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes And fondly broods with miser care — Time litt tit' impression deeper makel, At stream* their channels deeper tcear ; an image identical with... | |
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