 GIVE me a cottage on some Cambrian wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days, And, by the beauties of the scene beguiled, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his ways. While on the rock I mark the browsing goat, List to the...  The Remains of Henry Kirke White ... - Page 34by Henry Kirke White - 1825 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 566 pages
...present era, we are not surprised to read a sonnet perfectly elegant and legitimate, like the following: Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days, And, by the beauties of the scene beguil'd, May pity man's pursuits and shun his ways. While on the... | |
 | 1802 - 436 pages
...bid sorrow cease, And 'neath the green-sward sleep — the sleep of peace. Nottingham. HK W, SONNET. GIVE me a cottage on some Cambrian wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days ; And, by the beauties of the scene beguil'd, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his ways. While on... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...wildly novel on his senses float ! It was on this that many a sleepless night, As, lone, he watched the taper's sickly gleam, And at his casement heard,...wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days : And, by the beauties of the scene beguil'd, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his ways. £3 54 While... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...wildly novel on his senses float ! It was on this that many a sleepless night, As, lone, he watched the taper's sickly gleam, And at his casement heard,...cottage on some Cambrian wild, Where, far from cities, I mav spend my days : And, by the beauties of the scene beguil'd, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1808 - 698 pages
...wildly novel on his senses float ! It was on this that many a sleepless night, As, lone, he watched the taper's sickly gleam. And at his casement heard,...wild, Where far from cities, I may spend my days: And, by the beauties of the scene beguil'd, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his ways. X 3 While on... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 544 pages
...wildly novel ou his senses float ! It was on this -that many a sleepless night, As, lone, he watched- the taper's sickly gleam, And at his casement heard,...owl's dull wing, and melancholy scream, On this he tho'nght, this, this, his sole desire, Thus once again to hear the warbling woodland choir. SONNET... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 336 pages
...wildly novel on his senses float ! It was on this that many a sleepless night, As, lone, he watched the taper's sickly gleam, And at his casement heard,...cottage on some Cambrian wild, Where, far from cities, 1 may spend my days, And, by the beauties of the scene beguil'd, May pity man's pursuits, and shun... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 336 pages
...wildly novel on his senses float ! It was on this that many a sleepless night, As, lone, he watched the taper's sickly gleam, And at his casement heard,...wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days, And, by the beauties of the scene beguil'd, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his ways., £ S While... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1823 - 422 pages
...with joy the throstle's little throat ! And all the sounds which on the fresh breeze sail, How wildly novel on his senses float ! It was on this that many...wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days, And, by the beauties of the scene beguil'd, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his ways. E 3 While on... | |
 | Balneology - 1825 - 474 pages
...amply afforded ; and in lieu of the browzing goat, would need be content with the grazing sheep. " Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days, And, by the beauties of the scene beguiled, May pity man's pursuits, and sbun his ways : Wbile on the... | |
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