 There's not a flower on all the hills ; the frost is on the pane : I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again...  Academy Notes - Page 34by Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) - 1875Full view - About this book
 | 1894 - 576 pages
...to notice the telling contrast between this and the preceding stanza : — ' The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea.' Here the poor girl is recalling the cheerful sights and sounds •which she so well remembers ; and, what... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die. T. . The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1844 - 634 pages
...but I shall never see The blossom on the black thorn, the leaf upon the tree. The building rook will caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, Upon the chancel-casement, and upon that grave of mine, In the early, early morning the summer sun... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die. v. The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...the snow would melt, and the sun come out on high, I long to see a flower so, before the day I die. The building rook '11 caw from the windy, tall elmtree And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow '11 come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...the snow would melt and the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die. v. The building rook '11 caw from the windy tall elm-tree,...And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea,, And the swallow '11 come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...and the sun come out on high : I long to see a flower so before the day I die. The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1896 - 664 pages
...blossom« open to the blaze. The whole wood-world ii one full peal of praiie. ' Balín and Balan.' The building rook '11 caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave, 'But I shall lie alone, mother, within... | |
 | Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...the sun come out on high ; I long to see a flower so, before the day I die. The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within... | |
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