 The Laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the Fir that weepeth still, The Willow, worn of forlorn paramours, The Yew obedient to the bender's will, The Birch for shafts, the Sallow for the mill, The...  Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and ... - Page 194by Henry Hallam - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...SPENSER. 578 579 The oak for nothing ill, The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill. SPENSER. The sailing Pine; the Cedar, proud and tall ; The...dry; The builder Oak, sole king of forests all ; The Aspen, good for staves; the Cypress funeral ; The Laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage;... | |
 | Margaret Plues - Botany - 1879 - 422 pages
...fruitful Olive, and the plantain round ; The carver Holme, the Maple, seldom inward sound, The sayling Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop Elm,...Oak, sole king of forests all, The Aspine good for stayes the Cypress funerall." The CATKIN order succeeds that of the Elm, and includes a great many... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...a cock, to be awake at all hours and be ready to attend his journey. The Rich Cabinet, 1616. TREES. THE sailing pine ; the cedar proud and tall ; The...; The builder oak, sole king of forests all ; The aspen good for staves ; the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage ;... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, — The sailing pine ; the cedar proud and Ull ; The vine-prop elm ; the poplar never dry; The builder oak, sole king of forests all ; The aspen good for staves , the cypress funeral ; The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...dread, Seemed in their song to scorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop...dry, The builder Oak, sole king of forests all, The Aspin good for staves, the Cypress funeral. The Laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...dread, Seemed in their song to scorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop...dry, The builder Oak, sole king of forests all, The Aspiu good for staves, the Cypress funeral. The Laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1884 - 148 pages
...call to mind in the description of a forest." Hallam then quotes the entire stanza, beginning, — " The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry." " Every one knows," he says, " that a natural forest never contains such a variety of species ; and... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...dread, Seemed in their song to scorn the cruel sky Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop...dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The espin good for staves, the cypress funeral. The iaurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1891 - 846 pages
...praised much '• fhe trees so straight and by. The saylingpine; the cedar proud and tall; The vine propp elm ; the poplar never dry ; The builder oak, sole king of forests all ; The aspen good for staves ; the cypress funerall, The laurell, weed of mightie conquerourg And poets sage;... | |
 | Emma Forbes Cary - Calendars - 1893 - 294 pages
...the trees so straight and high, The say ling pine ; the cedar proud and tall ; The vine-propp elme ; the poplar never dry ; The builder oak, sole king...The aspine good for staves ; the cypress funeral! ; The laurel, meed of mightie conquerors And poets sage ; the fir that weepeth still ; The myrh sweet... | |
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