My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news... Wild Flowers - Page 119by Anne Pratt - 1853Full view - About this book
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...dark oak-tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long ; And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven,...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Than teaches! me... | |
| 1867 - 738 pages
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| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listen'd as if I heard an arigcl sing With news from heaven, which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted cars, When birds and (lowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou,... | |
| 1867 - 744 pages
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| Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 pages
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| James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
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| James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
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| 1863 - 774 pages
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