 | 1820 - 496 pages
...f line summer inn was sinking With a mild light, calm and mellow, It shone an my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow ; The robin was singing sweetly, And his tang was sad and tender; And my little boy's eyes, while he heard the song, Smiled with a sweet softsplendour.... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ireland - 1824 - 448 pages
...Mr. Anster, has been founded on this superstition; the mother is supposed to speak. " The summer sun was sinking With a mild light calm and mellow, It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 pages
...Mr. Anster, has been founded on this superstition; the mother is supposed to speak. " The summer sun was sinking With a mild light calm and mellow, It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1824 - 828 pages
...ANSTEK. [From " Researches in the South of Ireland." By TC Croker. 4to. i>p. 86, 87.] The summer sun was sinking With a mild light calm and mellow, It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - Ballads, English - 1827 - 272 pages
...Philosophy at Jena, was born at Morbach, in Wurtemburgb, 1759, died 1805. THE TANE-AWAY. THE summer sun was sinking With a mild light calm and mellow, It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and... | |
 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 pages
...not the right one, as it has gone by without leaving a trace behind." THE TANE-AWAY. THE summer sun was sinking With a mild light calm and mellow, It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and... | |
 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...light, calm and mellow, ' It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellsw, The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and tender ; And my little boy's eyes as he lieard the song, Smiled with sweet soft splendour. My little boy lay on my bosom, .... While... | |
 | John Anster - English poetry - 1837 - 196 pages
...Eyes that smile because they must, Yet the smile speaks half distrust. 1825. 87 BALLAD. THE summer sun was sinking With a mild light, calm and mellow, It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow ; The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and... | |
 | 1839 - 320 pages
...only saved the inventor from certain bankruptcy, but in the and tripled his fortune. The summer sun was sinking With a mild light, calm and mellow, It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - Engraving - 1844 - 312 pages
...Mr. Anster has been founded on this superstition ; the mother is supposed to speak. ' The summer sun was sinking, With a mild light, calm and mellow, It shone on my little boy's bonny elieeka, And his loose locks of yellow. ' The robin was singing sweetly, And big song was sad... | |
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It shone on my little boy's bonnie cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and tender ; And my little boy's eyes, while he heard the song, Smiled with a sweet, soft splendor. 
