 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1880 - 738 pages
...lie was a lovely youth 1 I guess The panther in the wilderness WHS not so fair as he; And, when be chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indiana he had fought, Aud with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of fear; Such tales... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest ;oy. He was a lovely Youth ! I guess The panther in the...play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought, And with him many tales he brought Df pleasure and of fear ; Such... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...boy, The Moon, the glory of the Sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the...play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought, And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of fear; Such tales... | |
 | England - 1882 - 866 pages
...the best-known stanza in it, describing the young man who proves false to Euth, is thus worded: — " He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he." " I guess " is very vulgar, inappropriate — for there is no guessing in the case — and evidently... | |
 | American literature - 1883 - 876 pages
...and swift," and again, " sleeping in beauty on the mangled prey, as panthers sleep ;" Wordsworth : He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he, and so with others. But even in these (Dryden' shaving a correct significance), the touch of the beast... | |
 | Belgravia - 1883 - 544 pages
...swift,' and again, ' sleeping in beauty on the mangled prey, as panthers sleep ; ' Wordsworth : lie was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he. 1 So Leyden also has ' the brinded paiiiher fierce.' and so with others. But even in these (Dryden's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 pages
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the...play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of fear ; Such tales... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobites - 1885 - 912 pages
...remarked, would bring a blessing on the shore, and send them " mair wrecks ere winter." * CHAPTER EIGHTH. He was a lovely youth I guess ; The panther in the...play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. WORDSWORTH. THE light foot of Mordaunt Mertoun was not long of bearing him to Yarlshof. He entered... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 pages
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely Youth ! I guess The panther in the...sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the trppic sea. Among the Indians he had fought, And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the...as he ; '« And, when he chose to sport and play, Xo dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought ; And with him many... | |
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He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. 
