 MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the...  The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ... - Page 96by Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 497 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...sky, On all the peaeeful world the smile of Heaven shall lie. EOGEES'S "ECEAL EETEEAT." MINE be a eot t night. Wild beasts of nature in his woods abound...to hardship, and to hemely fare. Nor venerable age thateh, Shall twitter from her elay-bnilt nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latoh, And share my... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...sees no more, Loved and still loves, — not dead, but gone before, He gathers round him. A Wish. Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. To a Tear. That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pages
...The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed ;" " The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from...lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest." Goldsmith's well-known lines: "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long," were evidently... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pages
...their lowly bed ;" for in his pleasing little poem, " The Wish," he presents us with the following : " The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from...lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest." Goldsmith's well-known lines : "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long," were... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pages
...their lowly bed ;" for in his pleasing little poem, " The Wish" he presents us with the following: " The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from...lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest." Goldsmith's well-known lines: "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long," — were... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 426 pages
...us with the following: " The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built uest j Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest." Goldsmith's well-known lines: " Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long,"— were... | |
 | 1857 - 298 pages
...Vanish into the flood, then, far off, rise again :— Such were their joys ! 94 Howiit. A WISH. iNE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall...latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew And Lucy at her wheel shall sing,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...When a. spring-lock, t':at lay in ambush there, Fasten'd her down for ever ! 593 A WISH. Mine be ft cot beside the hill ; A beehive's hum shall soothe...swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clny-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...manly Suffolk yeoman. A WISH. -SiiruEt BOGEES, born 1762, dicd 1865. Set as a glee by HOESLIY. MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall...The swallow oft, beneath my thatch, Shall twitter near her clay -built nest; Oft shaU the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.... | |
 | William A. Murrill - 1918 - 288 pages
...bee and always have honey." And her prospective husband probably shared the same sentiments. " Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall...turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew ; And Lucy, at her wheel,... | |
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