 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...It was a barren scene and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled, But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wallflower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. "For me, thus nurtured,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1891 - 300 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deeni'd such nooks... | |
 | John Veitch - Ballads, Scots - 1893 - 392 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked clifl's were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall." There his intense... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, Scottish - 1894 - 494 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall." 1 Marmion, Canto... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were-rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks... | |
 | William Lamb Sime, Wm. Lamb Sime - Smailholm (Scotland) - 1896 - 104 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such nooks... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...was a barren scane, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely...infant knew Recesses where the wall- flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1899 - 370 pages
...a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between 170 Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl . Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such nooks... | |
 | 1899 - 666 pages
...It was a barren scene and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled : But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grow, And honeysuckle loved to crawl • Up the low crap and ruin'd wall I deem'd such... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 410 pages
...It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks... | |
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Though scarce a puny streamlet's speed Claimed homage from a shepherd's reed; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet... 
