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. Poems - Page 94by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| A. G., Agnes Giberne - 1869 - 412 pages
...practise together, and have duets. It will be so much nicer than learning all by myself." CHAPTER VII. " Her cheek was pale, and thinner than should be for one so young." TENNYSON. THE music -lessons took place as proposed. Mrs. Lyster would not hear of a refusal being... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 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...And I said, " My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the trnth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee." On her pallid cheek and forehead... | |
| James De Mille - 1870 - 186 pages
...poet, for instance, would ever affirm that in the spring a livelier iris blooms upon the burnished dove; in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. No. For that sort of thing — the thoughts of love I mean — winter is the tune of day in Canada.... | |
| 1919 - 636 pages
...to part forever with the old swimmin-hole." "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." Herein does the poet sound the keynote of Spring. He announces her message. She speaks from every blade... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...laurel, as was Daphne, who fled from Apollo. l. 669. Cf. the line in Tennyson's Locksley Hall — ' In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.' l. 675. Cf. Odyssey, iv. 221. Nepenthes was the care-dispelling drug that Helen (daughter of Jupiter... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...free action of full emotion, and recognised the voice of a man in these verses of Locksley Hall: ' Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be...mute observance hung. And I said, "My cousin Amy, spoak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee." On her... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...free action of full emotion, and recognised the voice of a man in these verses of Locksley Hall : ' Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be...my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, "Hy cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 pages
...full emotion, and recognised the voice of a man in these verses of Locksley Hall : ' Then her check was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all niy motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, " My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to... | |
| 1872 - 900 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished ` - л mute observance hung. And I said, "My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me ; Trust me, cousin,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Sprlug a livelier iris changes on the burnlsh'd dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Then her cheek was pnle and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motion» with a mute observance... | |
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