 While, lightly poised, the scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood ; The springing trout in speckled pride, The salmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A...  Poetry for children, selected by L. Aikin - Page 73by Poetry - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - 1771 - 292 pages
...bow'rs of birch, and groves of pine, And edges flow'r'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks fo gayly green. May num'rous herds and flocks be feen, And lafles chanting o'er the pail, And fhepherd's piping in the dale. And ancient faith that knows no guile, And induftry imbrown'd with toil,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1777 - 330 pages
...bowers of birch, and groves of pinei And edges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks Co gayly green, May num'rous herds and flocks be feen, And...pail, And fhepherds piping in the dale, • - ^ And ancient faith that knows no guile, And induftry imbrown'd with toil, And hearts refolv'd, and hands... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1777 - 336 pages
...fmall fifh^ not unlike the fmelt, which it rivals in delicacy and flavour. Devolving Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And edges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks fo gayly green, May num'rous herds and flocks be... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...of the tide ; The ruthlefs pike, intent 9n war ' The filver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, . By bowers of birch and grev«s ^of pine,. , And hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks-, .fo gaily green, May... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bow'rs of birch, and proves of piotf And hedges, flow'r'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, fo gaily green, May num'rous herds and flock's be fan; And laflcs, chanting o'er the pail; And fhcphcrds, piping in the dale; And ancient... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 560 pages
...eel, and motled par *. Devolving from thy parent lake, • A charming maze thy waters make, By bowVs of birch, and groves of pine. And hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, fo gayly green, May num'rous herds and flocks be feen, And lafles chanting o'er the pail, And fhepherds... | |
 | Robert Heron - 1799 - 432 pages
...of the tide ; Th^ ruthlefs pike, intent on war j The filver eel, and motled par*. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers...groves of pine, And. hedges flower'd with eglantine. Stitl'dii thy banks fo gaily green. May uum'rous herds and docks be feen, And 1 rifles chanting o'er... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...lave, No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course : Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers...hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, so gaily green, May numerous herds and flocks be seen, And lasses chanting o'er the pail, And shepherds... | |
 | John Stoddart - 1801 - 386 pages
...enlivened by the busy industry of the bleachers ; and the numerous buildings contrast well with the " Bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And hedges flower'd with eglantine," Such a situation is doubtless preferable to a town^ both in regard to health and appearance. In the... | |
 | 1803 - 582 pages
...filver eel and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy water make, By bow'rs of birch, and groves of pine, And hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, fo gayly green, May numerous herds and flocks be feen j And lafles chaunting o'er the pail, And ihepherds... | |
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