 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
 | Michael Bruce - Poets, Scottish - 1865 - 292 pages
...and by which name it has been celebrated by Smollett, in the famous Ode beginning — ' On I,evcn'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... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 334 pages
...and by which name it has been celebrated by Smollett, in the famous Ode beginning — ' On Lcven'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 elear, by others... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1866 - 132 pages
...hills the fragrant harvest grows, And spreads along the field in equal rows. GAY. ODE TO LEVEN WATEK. ON Leven's banks, while free to rove? And tune the...not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plainPure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1868 - 280 pages
...toil embrown'd, Content, with brow serenely gay, And genial Art's refulgent ray. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1875 - 622 pages
...Despair her soul had ne'er po>sess'd To dash on rocks the tender breast. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. On Ix:ven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. 1'iirc stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs [ wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...of Wye And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent Him bootless home, and weather-beaten back. SHAKSPEARE. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...of Wye And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent Him bootless home, and weather-henten back. SHAKSPEARE. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...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; Xo torrents... | |
 | Arthur Campbell Ainger - 1879 - 144 pages
...teach you that the birds have forsaken their old home. 2. arte carens. 3. carpo. On Leven's Banks. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. 5 Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...fruits and poisons spring where'er thou Howest. <7. »HELLET— .Sonne/. ToiheXilf. (See Keats' Poems.) r. Henry VI. Pt. II. Act V. So. 1. It is the purpose...purpose must not hold. s. Trouus and Cressida. Act iu whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...— Sonnet. To the Nile. (See Keats' Poems.) On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rurul es Hum about globes of clover and sweet peas. e. KKAia—Endymion. Bk. I. Line %ave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No racks impede thy dimpling... | |
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