 On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source; No...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 222by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...and, upon my honour, I prefer Loch Lomond to them all.' And so in his ' Ode to Leven Water :' — ' On Leven's banks while free to rove And tune the rural...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain.' This was the re-awakened patriotism of the elderly Scot revisiting his native... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...banish'd peace, thy laurels torn." ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On I/even's banks, while free to rove, And tune (he rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...sympathizing verse shall flow: " Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn.'' ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove,...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn." ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Levcn's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...and offensively coarse. He also wrote many imall foauLi, a few of which are spirited and fine.] OK Leven's banks, while free to rove And tune the rural...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave, No torrents... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...sympathizing verse shall flow : " Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn." ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove,...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
 | 1863 - 394 pages
...far away in the interior of India, I heard accidentally Smollett's beautiful lines, beginning, — On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, repeated by a countryman. The effect was instantaneous, and reminded me of Humboldt's theory, that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...sympathizing verse shall flow: " Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn." ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove,...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 290 pages
...still named, and by which name it has been celebrated by Smollett, in the famous Ode beginning — ' On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love.' The word Leven is held to be of Saxon origin, and by some it is understood to mean clear, by others... | |
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