 The violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen or copse or forest dingle. " Though fair her gems of azure hue Beneath the dewdrop's weight reclining, I've seen an eye of lovelier...  The Edinburgh annual register - Page xxiii1810Full view - About this book
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 518 pages
...touched them up afterwards." " The violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen...azure hue Beneath the dewdrop's weight reclining, I 've seen an eye of lovelier blue More sweet through watery lustre shining. " The summer sun that... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1901 - 202 pages
...key elsewhere unknown. * The violet in her greenwood bower, Where bircheu bonghs with hazels mhigU^ May boast itself the fairest flower In glen, or copse, or forest dingle. * Thongh fair her gems of azure hue, Beneath the dewdrop's weight reclining, IVe seen an eye of lovelier... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 230 pages
...bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, Hay boast itself the fairest flower In glen, or oopse, or forest dingle. " Though fair her gems of azure hue, Beneath the desvdrop's weight reclining, Fre seen an eye of lovelier blue, More sweet through watery lustre shining.... | |
 | JOHN MORLEY - 1902 - 210 pages
...to a key elsewhere unknown. * The violet in her greenwood bower, Where bircheii boughs with hazels mingle^ May boast itself the fairest flower In glen,...copse, or forest dingle. "Though fair her gems of aznre hue, Beneath the dewdrop's weight reclining, I've seen an eye of lovelier blue, More sweet through... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1902 - 554 pages
...bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, May bout itself the fairest flower In glen or copm or forest dingle. " Though fair her gems of azure hue Beneath the dewdrop'a weight reclining, I 're seen an eye of lovelier blue More sweet through watery lustre shining.... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 458 pages
...have the note of personal emotion: The violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen,...I've seen an eye of lovelier blue, More sweet through watery lustre shining. The summer sun that dew shall dry, Ere yet the day be past its morrow ; Nor... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott, edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. - 1904 - 986 pages
...with gold ' THE VIOLET. (1797.) THE violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs witli hazels mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen,...Beneath the dewdrop's weight reclining ; I've seen an ез'е of lovelier blue, More sweet through wat'ry lustre shining. The summer sun that dew shall dry,... | |
 | Natural history - 1918 - 426 pages
...beauty, quite unmindful of the poets. "The violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with Hazel mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen or copse or forest dingle." —Sir Waller Scott. PHYLLIS SUMMERS Ames, Iowa With field glasses and bird book I started for the... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...of his muse " The Violet " : " The Violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen,...seen an eye of lovelier blue, More sweet, through watery lustre shining. The summer sun that dew shall dry, Ere yet the day be past its morrow ; Nor... | |
 | American poetry - 1907 - 162 pages
...in me shall abide. Shakespeare. The violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen, or copse, or forest dingle. Sir Walter Scott. 34 Wild Violets. 0 violets, sweetest of all the sweet flowers That heaven has given... | |
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