 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...Thou wert by my side. IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove Listening the nightingale ! if thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my knee, How gayly would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...absent from his wife, a little poem in his journal. ' If thou, my love, were by my side, My babies on my knee, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea. I miss thee when, by Gunga's stream, MyHwilight steps I guide, But most, beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss thee... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale 1 ubilee, When your flag takes all heaven for its white, green, gayly would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...were -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... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 pages
...TO MRS. HEBER. _ thou wert by my side, my love, 5S How fast would evening fail fy In green Bengala's palmy grove Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my...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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...BISHOP HEBER'S JOURNAL. If thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's eebors ncebors knoe, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale I If thon, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my knee, How gayly would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea I I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...so gloriously faithiul 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 knce, How gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga'e mimic sea 1 I miss thce at the dawning gray,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 480 pages
...gloriously faithful to both ! He writes to his wife those charming lines on his journey : — " If if inn, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, How gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gonga's mimic sea I I miss thee at the dawning grey, when, on our... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...THOU WERT BY MY sIDE. IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening tail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my knee, How gayly would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! 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... 
