 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...my books will show : I rend, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For then sure I should grow To fruit or shade : at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. " Vet, though Thou troublest me, I must be meek, In weakness must be stout : Well, I will change my... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For then sure I should grow To fruit or shade : at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I shou'd be just. " Yet, though Thou troublest me, I must be meek, In weakness must be stout : Well,... | |
 | George Herbert - 1891 - 282 pages
...my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade : at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. Yet, though Thou troublest me, I must be meek; In weakness must be stout; Well, I will change the service,... | |
 | American fiction - 1910 - 558 pages
...my books will show ; I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For then sure should I grow To fruit or shade ; at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. A miserably poor comparison, perhaps; but it shows, at least, \the utter trustfulness and real desire... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895 - 392 pages
...books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree, — For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade; at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. Yet though Thou troublest me, I must be meek; In weakness must be stout. Well, I will change the service,... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - English poetry - 1896 - 378 pages
...Affliction (p. 68) : " I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree, — For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade ; at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just." and his Employment (p. 106) : " Oh that I were an orange-tree, That busy plant ! Then should I ever... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 282 pages
...my books will show. I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree, For sure I then should grow To fruit or shade : at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. ' Yet though thou tioublest me, I must be meek, In weakness must be stout ; Well, I will change the... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...touches of appreciation, as where he says: I wish I were a tree For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade ; at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. 1 Crashaw knows less of the concrete objects of the world, but is a creature of light and atmosphere,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...touches of appreciation, as where he says: I wish I were a tree For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade ; at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.1 Crashaw knows less of the concrete objects of the wodd, .. but is a creature of light and atmosphere,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...touches of appreciation, as where he says: I wish I were a tree For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade ; at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.1 Crashaw knows less of the concrete objects of the world, but is a creature of light and atmosphere,... | |
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Now I am here, what Thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade : at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. 
