| 430 էջ
...Cnckoo, for his, we think with Dr. Mackclvic, the verses were. Sweet bird, thy bovver ii ever preen, Thy sky is ever clear, Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ?io winter in thy yeur. about (followed, through a strange fascination, by a bird of another race,... | |
| Salem Town - 1850 - 374 էջ
...on the bloom, Thou fleest thy local vale, Another guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. 6. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year! 7. O could I fly, I 'd fly with thee! We 'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,... | |
| Child - 1850 - 72 էջ
...vale ; An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. 16 HKTTJKB DO IT THAH WISH IT DONE. Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, Sweet bird! thy bow'r is ever green, No winter in thy year! Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions... | |
| Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 496 էջ
...to hear, And imitates thy lay. Thou fli'st thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another Spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green,...O could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the Spring. SIR WILLIAM JONES (1746-1794)... | |
| Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 586 էջ
...I been then more versed in poetry, I might have addressed him in the words of Logan to the cuckoo : Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy note, No winter in thy year. Oh ! could I fly, I'd fly with thee ; We'd make, on joyful wing Our annual... | |
| David Fraser Fraser-Harris - 1928 - 288 էջ
...so happy in their work that we may say of them what the Scottish poet Logan said of the cuckoo — " Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year." But with religion it is all quite different. Religion without poetry is like the lily-of-thevalley... | |
| British and foreign sailors' society - 1839 - 378 էջ
...What time the pea pats on the bloom Thou Hirst thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green—...could I fly, I'd fly with thee .' We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Attendants on the spring. The Cuckoo is a bird, that... | |
| 1885 - 1050 էջ
...of this wild and frosty day in reminiscences of summer time. It is a pretty-sounding couplet, — " Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year," — but rather incongruous, he would think. Chickadee, dee, he calls, — chickadee, dee ; and though... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 էջ
...been then more versed in poetry, I might have addressed him in the words of Logan to the cuckoo : " Sweet bird, thy bower Is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow In thy song, No winter in thy year. "Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We 'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 էջ
...underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses. LOGAN John 1748-1788 6459 To the Cuckoo (attributed) has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein pe LOGAU Friedrich von 1604-1655 6460 (translated by Longfellow) Though the mills of God grind slowly,... | |
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