 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1909 - 374 ページ
...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 Thomas Kerlin - 1910 - 228 ページ
...— One would think she might like to retire, To the bower I've labored to rear. Pt. 2, st. 5. — I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found...wood-pigeons breed: But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. THOMAS BLACKLOCK. On the Death of Mr. Pope: An Elegy, c. 1745. ALLUSION... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1911 - 414 ページ
...a titlark's, in blowing which Martin and he had nearly been drowned in the yolk. THE BTRD-FANCIERS 'I have found 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." — Rows. 'And now, my lad, take them five... | |
 | Walter Jerrold, Robert Maynard Leonard - 1913 - 460 ページ
...Windus and the Houghton, Mifflin Company. P. 342. A Oeological Madrigal. Shenstone's verses beginning I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed, are in Hope, the second part of his Pastoral Ballad in Four Parts. The inspiration of Bret Harte's... | |
 | Alice Isabel Hazeltine - 1918 - 108 ページ
...reproduced by Cowper in The Task (Book IV, 1. 750). It may not be a mere fancy of mine that the lines I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed, (Poetical Works, p. 152) suggested to Mrs. Browning the dainty romance of little Ellie sitting by the... | |
 | Alice Isabel Hazeltine - 1918 - 112 ページ
...Health do my Fountains bestow! My Fountains, all border'dw th Moss, Where the Pinks & the Violets grow! I have found out a Gift for my Fair; I have found where y* wood-pigeons breed; Yet let me that Plunder forbear; For he ne'er cou'd be true, she aver'd Who... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 ページ
...49. 8 Parta теге Veneri sunt muñera; namque notavi Ipse locum aëriœ quo congessere palumrjes. clusters load the lilac-bushes. AMELIA B. WELBY — Hopeless Love. 11 When lil VERGIL — Eclog. III. 68. English by SHEN6TONE. Pastoral. II. Hope. Erroneously attributed to HOWE... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 ページ
...bird shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she aver'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 ページ
...bird shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she aver'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 ページ
...shall harmoniously join 30 In a concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 oft drinks she till ye may see The tears run down...cheek; Then doth she trowl to me the bowl, 25 Even as a 35 She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averred, Who would rob a poor... | |
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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... 
