 In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the Robin's breast ; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.  Locksley Hall, and The Talking Oak - Page 16by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 88 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1893 - 840 pages
...autumn, and the cousins were to be introduced in the summer. Just now it was spring. And, alas! — In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. John Farquhar, the engaged man, was . not sufficiently alive to this springtime danger in which he... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1850 - 346 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." ALFRED TENNYSON. AND now winter had long given place to summer. It was long since Captain Lockhart's... | |
 | mrs. Gordon - 1850 - 346 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest j In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." ALFRED TKNNYSON. AND now winter had long given place to summer. It was long since Captain Lockhart's... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1852 - 358 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Then her check was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest, In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the burnished dove, In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." And now, goodbye to ye readers — a hearty goodbye, an English " goodbye !" which is better than any... | |
 | Grace Greenwood - 1852 - 456 pages
...spring-time of softer sunshine, and deeper bloom, and more entrancing song. It may also be true that — ' In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.' Certain it is, that, like the hero of ' Locksley Hall,' Mr. Walter Edwards felt ' all the current of... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. TENNYSON. So says our finest living poet ; and turning to the page of another poet, a most eloquent... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish' d dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of lore. Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 426 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the spring a lovelier iris changes ou the burnished dove, In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." With many other pastoral customs of the olden time, that of the rural celebration of May-day is well-nigh... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest 5 In the spring a lovelier iris changes on the burnished dove, In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." With many other pastoral customs of the olden time, that of the rural celebration of May-day is well-nigh... | |
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