On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave... Rural Sports - Page 173by William Barker Daniel - 1812Full view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...Rich Industry, with toil embrown'd; Content, with brow serenely gay, And genial Art's refulgent ray. TO LEVEN- WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to rove,...love; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
| Garland - 1872 - 170 pages
...carcase upon such a harum-scarum blood of a bitch again, my name is not Hawser Trunnion ! " — SMOLLETT. TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to rove,...love ; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
| Country life - 1873 - 160 pages
...Thou saint within a mossy shrine, The tribute of a heart to-day, Weary and worn, is thine ! AVo,/. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks while free to...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...my patron and my pride. Smollett.— Born 1721, Died 1771. 922.— ODE TO LEVEN-WATEE. On Le ven' s h his martial cloak around him. Few and short wore...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrente... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 216 pages
...95.— TO LEVEN WATEB. s ' / / tor-rent youth-ful im-pede dimA-/vna. Aai war-bles dimp-ling poise-d On Leven's banks while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I used to lave, No torrents... | |
| 1876 - 292 pages
...sleekie bird ne'er build a nest That sung to see the hawk wi' me! » # * * * Anonymous. Leven, the River. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs 1 wont to lave; No torrents... | |
| 1876 - 312 pages
...That sung to see the hawk wi' me ! ***** Anonymous. Leven, the River. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leveu's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
| James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pages
...Despair her soul had ne'er posgess'd To dash on rocks the tender breast. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. On Even's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 pages
...Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot. William Cmnper. 2O2 ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
| John Ross - 1878 - 816 pages
...goblins of the night; And Independence o'er the day preside, Propitious power! my patron and my pride. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
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