 If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! ' If thou, my love ! wert by my side, My babies at my knee, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea...  Some Account of the Life of Reginald Heber - Page 159by Reginald Heber - 1829 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...so at night for security, otherwise he would be a magnificent booty for the jackalls.' — p. 175. About this stage of the progress, we find inserted...of Heber's poems previously published — even to 1 Palestine.' ' If thou wert by my side, my love ! how fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...so at night for security, otherwise he would be a magnificent booty for the jackalls.' — p. 175. About this stage of the progress, we find inserted...indeed, to speak plainly, we consider the second of them ns superior to any of Heber's poems previously published — even to ' Palestine.' ' If thou wert by... | |
 | Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1828 - 532 pages
...Fiatookah" in Tongataboo, in Cook's third voyage, than any thing else by which I can illustrate it. If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengola's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love ! wert by my side, My babies at... | |
 | 1828 - 732 pages
...presenting them to our readers, before we proceed to notice the concluding portion of the volume : — • " If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening sail, In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love ! werI by my side,... | |
 | Leonard Crocker Bowles - Bishops - 1831 - 372 pages
...professional cares and duties, new scenes and objects of observation, his family were constantly remembered. ' If thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Benagla's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 550 pages
...return to the pinnace from his rambles through the walks that he found in this pretty native village. "If thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fall. In green Bengala's palmy grove, List'ning the nightingale ! "If thou, my love ! wert by my side,... | |
 | M. S. - English poetry - 1839 - 194 pages
...to set — but all, Thou has all seasons for thine own, O, Death. p. HEMANS. TO AN ABSENT PARTNER. If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail ; In green Bengal a's palmy grove, Listening the Nightingale ! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - India - 1844 - 336 pages
...fiatookah " in Tongataboo, in Cook's third voyage, than anything else by which I can illustrate it. If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In•green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love ! wert by my side, My... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...Full well her archers know, And shame on their name Who despise the British bow. VERSES TO MRS. HEBER. IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengah's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1846 - 428 pages
...breath consume, To vivify He slays, and quenches to illume. July, 1828. ON THE DEATH OF BISHOP HE3ER. " If thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengalas palmy grove Listening to the nightingale! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at... | |
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