 | 1849 - 604 pages
...fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North. '0 Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light Upon her lattice, I would...died ! ' Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green ? ' O tell... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 1848 - 180 pages
...fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North. ' O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light Upon her lattice, I would...died. ' Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green ? ' O tell... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1848 - 186 pages
...fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North. ' O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light Upon her lattice, I would pipe and thrill, And cheep and twitter twenty million loves. ' O were I thou that she might take me in, And... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1877 - 564 pages
...cheek." Another parallel may be quoted between the lines in the Swallow Song, Princess, iv. 84 — " 0 were I thou that she might take me in, And lay me...her heart Would rock the snowy cradle till I died," — and a passage in that favourite volume of Early English students, Harl. MS. 2253, fol. 07, where... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1896 - 664 pages
...'But I shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave. ' The May Queen.' О Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light Upon her lattice, I would...trill, And cheep and twitter twenty million loves. ' The Princess.' Only the wan wave Swaying the helpless hands, and up and down Tumbling the hollow... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North. " O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light Upon her lattice, I would...died ! " Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green ? " O tell... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North. " О Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light Upon her lattice. I would...trill, And cheep and twitter twenty million loves. " 0 were I thou that she might take me in, And lay me on her bosom, and her heart Would rock the snowy... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North. " O were I thou that she might take me in, And lay me...died. " Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green ? " O tell... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North. " O were I thou that she might take me in, And lay me...died. " Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, Delaying as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green ? " O tell... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...can displace from memory the song of the northern Prince to the swallow ? " 0 swallow, swallow, if I could follow, and light Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, And chirp and twitter twenty million loves. " 0 were I there, that she might take me in. And lay me on... | |
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O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, And cheep and twitter twenty million loves. O were I thou that she might take me in, And lay me on her bosom, and her heart Would rock the snowy cradle till I died. 
