 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
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...spring where'er thou llowest. <L SHELLET— Sonnet. To the Nile. (See Rents' Poems.) On Leven's bnnks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swnin That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Puro stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I... | |
 | Arthur Campbell Ainger - 1884 - 154 pages
...that the birds have forsaken their old home. 1. static. 2. arte carens. 3. carpo. On Leven's Banks. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave 5 My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 pages
...which they play when attending their flocks. EXERCISES. 1. Give the meaning of these phrases— (a) I envied not the happiest swain that ever trod the Arcadian plain ; (6) No rocks impede thy dimpling course ; (c) The scaly brood in myriads cleave thy crystal flood... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...numerous flocks and herds be seen." ODE TO LEVEN WATER ' Leven's banks, while free to rove And time 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, Xo torrents... | |
 | William John Millar - Clyde River - 1888 - 356 pages
...wrote, as its banks are alive with various industries, such as dyeing, printing, ship-building, &c. " On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe of love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain ; Devolving from thy parent... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...fruits and poisons spring where'er thou flowest. <7. SHELLEY— Sonnet. To the Nile. (See Keats' Poems.) On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swaia That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent \rave My youthful limbs... | |
 | MacMichael, Archibald Campbell M'Michael - Dunbartonshire (Scotland) - 1890 - 228 pages
...of Professor Stuart, of Edinburgh, John Ramsay, of Ochtertyre, and the famous Dr. Samuel Johnson. " On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. " Pare stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I won't to lave. No... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1890 - 654 pages
...has celebrated — " Pure stream ! in -whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I -won't to lave ; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain." The Magistrates thought they had the absolute and exclusive right, in virtue of their old Royal Charter,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...Independence o'er the day preside, Propitious power 1 my patron and my pride. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. On Leren'i banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, 1 envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent... | |
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