 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...Reserved and rude ; Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some...wear away ; Till the smooth temper of my age should bo Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves a sombre... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1854 - 522 pages
...Reserved and rude ; Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. V. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. VL And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green The holly leaves their... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness ahow, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be... | |
 | Animals in literature - 1855 - 120 pages
...Reserved and rude ; Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1855 - 588 pages
...playmate," hie own beautifully expressed wish was fully realized : " And should my youth, ae youth is apt, 1 know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day...should be Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree." The Holly Tret: Poem», p. 1Я9. ment. It would highly gratify me to see my uncle, and I have associations... | |
 | 1008 pages
...Like the high leaven upon the hully tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harahness show ; All vain asperities, I. day by day, Would wear...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 240 pages
...Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their fadeless... | |
 | American essays - 1883 - 884 pages
...more obvious self-conceit, and who realized in an old age of singular beauty the aspiration, — " And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some...the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high h/aves upon the holly -tree ! ' ' But the spirit of Sir Philip Sidney, once evoked, is drawing our... | |
 | Robert Southey - Christian saints - 1858 - 534 pages
...Reserved and rude ; Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. vI. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green , The holly leaves their... | |
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And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. 
