 | Heinrich Oskar Sommer - 1888 - 142 ページ
...is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her trinmphs, and die." Disappointment 6. O, ye woods, spread your branches apace; To your deepest recesses... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 ページ
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ! How the nightingales labor the strain. I oates a*id die." i To the grove or the garden he strays, And pillages every sweet; Then, suiting the wreath... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 ページ
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, ! . . . Disappointment. Ye shepherds, give ear to my lay, And take no more heed of my sheep : They have... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 ページ
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, ur . . . . Disappointment. Ye shepherds, give ear to my lay, And take no more heed of my sheep : They have... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 ページ
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ; How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. Shenstone's most ambitious poem, The Schoolmistress, appeared in 1742; the Pastoral Ballad (from which... | |
 | 1903
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ; How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. Shenstone's most ambitious poem, The Schoolmistress, appeared in 1 742 ; the Pastoral Ballad (from... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 ページ
...bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ; How the nightingales labour the strain, AVith the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their...accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. Shenstone's most ambitious poem, The Schoolmistress, appeared in 1 742 ; the Pastoral Ballad (from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 ページ
...bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold : ' How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die3.' In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of 29 Hope: ' Alas ! from the day... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 ページ
...as bright as the snow. And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ? How the nightingales labour the strain. With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...triumphs, and die." To the grove or the garden he strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then, suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis' s... | |
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Tis his with mock passion to glow, Tis his in smooth tales to unfold, " How her face is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents... 
