OH, TO BE in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England -... The new poetical reader, ed. by J.C. Curtis - Sida 70redigerad av - 1872 - 160 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 sidor
...to see what they referred to. HOME-THOUGHTS FEOM ABEOAD. Oh, to be in England, 1. Now that April 'a there— And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning,...unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Bound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf; While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 sidor
...will hold your hand but as long as all may, Or so very little longer ! HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD. i. OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever...While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! ii. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 sidor
...Dramatic Lyrics. FROM DRAMATIC LYRICS.1 HOME-THOUGHTS, PROM ABROAD. Oh, to be in England Now that April 's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning,...While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1865 - 736 sidor
...on English ground, where we should like to meet with him oftener : — HOME-THOUGHTS FBOM ABROAD. ' Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever...boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole arc in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! % And after April,... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 sidor
...his power of minute observation helps him. The following poem is called " Home Thoughts from Abroad." Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever...boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bolo are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now. And after... | |
| 1865 - 610 sidor
...on English ground, where we should like to meet with him .oftener : — HOME-THOUGHTS FEOM ABROAD. ' Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever...unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Eound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England... | |
| 1874 - 968 sidor
...Tennyson could have written them. Then comes Robert Browning, singing far away under Italian skies — " Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there ; And...While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England now ! " And after all it comes to this, poet or no poet — we all of us, who have any poetry... | |
| George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 sidor
...And the maid will stand before you like a vision from above. Edward Capern. XLI. SPRING IN ENGLAND. Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever...While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows... | |
| Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 sidor
...may, Or so very little longer ! HOME THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD. OH, to be in England Now that April 's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning,...While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows,... | |
| James Cundall - 1866 - 554 sidor
...though fickle, is full of interest and treasured memories. " Oh ! to be in England, Now that Apnl's there ; And whoever wakes in England Sees some morning,...the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bongh In England now! " —... | |
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