 There's not a flower on all the hills : the frost is on the pane I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again : I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high : I long to see a flower so before the day I die. The building rook 'ill caw from...  Notes and Queries - Page 4011896Full view - About this book
 | 1894 - 576 pages
...to notice the telling contrast between this and the preceding stanza : — ' The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea.' Here the poor girl is recalling the cheerful sights and sounds •which she so well remembers ; and,... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 420 pages
...see a flower so before the day I die. v. " The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And...shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave. " Upon the chancel-casement, and upon that grave o' mine, In the early, early morning the summer sun... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...and the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die. The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover...the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er Upon the chancel-casement, and upon that grave of mine. In the early early morning the summer sun 'ill... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die. T. . The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover...shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave. n, Upon the chancel-casement, and upon that grave of mine, In the early early morning the summer sun... | |
 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1858 - 450 pages
...submissive, and how plaintive her language. " The building rook will caw from the windy, tall elm tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea— And the swallow will come back, with the Hummer, o'er the ware ; But I shall be alone, mother, within the mouldering... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1844 - 634 pages
...but I shall never see The blossom on the black thorn, the leaf upon the tree. The building rook will caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, Upon the chancel-casement, and upon that grave of mine, In the early, early morning the summer sun... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die. v. The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover...shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave. Vz. Upon the chancel-casement, and upon that grave of mine, In the early early morning the summer sun... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - Christmas - 1845 - 436 pages
...long to see a flower so before the day I die. The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And...'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I 'ihall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave. Upon the chancel-casement, and upon that grave... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...the snow would melt, and the sun come out on high, I long to see a flower so, before the day I die. The building rook '11 caw from the windy, tall elmtree...plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow '11 come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering... | |
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