 | Robert Hay (of Wigan.) - 1865 - 112 pages
...nature, his true, gentle love is finely expressed in some lines to his wife whiui on his journey : — If thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, How gladly would our pinnance glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea. I miss thee at the dawning gray, when on our... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1866 - 724 pages
...wert by my side, my love, l£ih How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, List'ning the nightingale ! If thou, my love, wert by my side,...our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thec at the dawning grey, When on our deck reclined ; In careless case my limbs I lay, And woo the... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...How fast would evening fail, In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale I , If thoti, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my knee, •...gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea I , R. С. I .miss thee at dawning day, -•.,.. -i When on the. deck reclined ~ ,. In careless ease... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...so gloriously faithful to both ! He writes to his wife those'charming lines on his journey : — " If thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, How gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, when, on our... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...so gloriously faithful to both ! He writes to his wife those charming lines on his journey : — " If thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, How gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, when, on our... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...so gloriously faithful to both ! He writes to his wife those charming lines on his journey : — " If thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, How gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, when, on our... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...so gloriously faithful to both ! He writes to his wife those charming lines on his journey : — " If thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, I low gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, when,... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 pages
...thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengalia's palmy grove, List'ning the nightingale! If thou, my love! wert by my side,...O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning grey, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss... | |
 | Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 252 pages
...HEBER TO HIS WIFE. IP thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail, In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale. If thou, my...gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea. * See " The Competition Wallah," hy GK O. Trevelyan, Esq. I miss thee at the dawning grey, When on... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...MY SIDE, MY LOVE. IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. I...praise him not ; it were too late ; And some inuati gayly would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea 1 I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our... | |
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How gaily would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea! I miss thee at the dawning grey, when, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, and woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream my twilight steps I guide, But most beneath... 
