 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...On turning one down with. the plmigh, in April, 1786. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou 'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the...stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it 's no thy neibor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1906 - 552 Seiten
...crimson tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, I maun crush thee among the stoure Thy tender stem, To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem." Again, one of our own poets: "The holy grail is found in each poppy cup of geld, And God walks with... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 362 Seiten
...for it as if it were a beautiful child too rudely treated. Wee, modest crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush amang the...stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonie gem. But even here he cannot, as "Wordsworth does, leave the daisy and its fate alone.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...InvP; LiTB; NAEL-2; NOEC; OxBS; Prim To a Mountain Daisy 59 Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's s eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the...Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil (I. 1—6) 60 Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd: (1. 37—38)... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 2005 - 361 Seiten
...The third is just thrown in by the prodigal hand of genius in a poem not to a lark but to a daisy : "Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet, W? speckl'd breast, When upward springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east." How fine is Wordsworth's... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 Seiten
...Daisy1 ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, I 786 Wee. modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, thou's met me in an evil hour; for I maun crush amang the...slender stem: to spare thee now is past my pow'r, thou bonie gem. Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet, the bonie lark, companion meet, bending thee 'mang the dewy... | |
 | 532 Seiten
...Dark'ning the day ! " This of the lark and daisy — the daintiest and nearest perfect in our language : " Alas ! it's no' thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark,...companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east." A REAL DEMOCRAT. In one... | |
 | Graham W. Hardy - 2007 - 168 Seiten
...his plough: "Wee modest, crimson-tipped flower Thou 's met me in an evil hour For I maun crush, among the stoure thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my power, thou bonnie gem. " Or there was that little field mouse scurrying away, that "Wee, sleekit,... | |
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Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd... 
