 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 sidor
...bush, which, though no lover of poetry, he had not only condescended to read, but to commit to memory. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they ; That, in my age, as cheerful I might be, As the green... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 sidor
...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 sidor
...leaves their fadeless hues display But when the bare and wintry woods we see, '^at then so cheerful as the Holly Tree ? Less bright than they ; So serious...should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, 80 would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sidor
...bright than they; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay THALABA'S HOME IN THE DESEBT. IT was the wisdom and the will of Heaven, That, in a lonely tent, had... | |
 | 1831 - 496 sidor
...than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree ? " So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless...amid the young and gay More grave than they ; That In iny age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree." Mr Banlm Is a better prose-writer... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sidor
...bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see. What then so cheerful as the hollytree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would 1 seem amid the young and say More grave than they, That in ray age as cheerful I might be As the green... | |
 | 1837 - 538 sidor
...we see, "What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? — So serious should my youth appear among Tho thoughtless throng; So would I seem, amid the young and gay, More grave than they ; That in my ago as cheerful I might bo As the green winter of the holly tree. SoUTHBY. WHO would attempt to chain... | |
 | 1838 - 950 sidor
...bright than they j But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless...I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they j That in my age us cheerful I might he .As the green winter of the holly-tree. SOUTHEY. BERNE. —... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 sidor
...bright than they; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1839 - 450 sidor
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary,... | |
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So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree, III LORD WILLIAM. 
