 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh...I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show. All vain asperities I day by day... | |
 | Great Britain - 1850 - 584 pages
...emblems see, Wherewith, perchance, to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad, perchance I might appear, Harsh...I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I, day by day,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flowers in literature - 1836 - 434 pages
...scarlet berriea; growing in Europe, Japan, and also abundantly in North America. DOMESTIC HAPPINESS. Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly tree. SOUTHBY. SENTIMENT. Oh ! could I one dear being find, And were her fate to mine but joined By Hymen's... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad, perchance, I might appear i I ;; • ! i and austere ; To those who on my leisure would intrude,...I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities, I, day by day,... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...emblems see 4Vherewith, perchance, to make a pleasant rhyme, One which ¡nay profit in tLe after-tune. Thus, though abroad, perchance, I might appear Harsh...austere ; To those who on my leisure would intrude, Heserved and rudo ¡ Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree.... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - Flower language - 1837 - 264 pages
...hand; A thousand steely points on every scale, Form the bright terrors of his bristly mall. Darwin. Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. Sovthey. "And wear thou thls" — she solemn said, And bound the holly round my head : The polish'd... | |
 | 1838 - 950 pages
...emblems sec Wherewith, perchance, to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh...austere ; To those who on my leisure would intrude, Reserv'd and rude : Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1838 - 282 pages
...leaves near the ground; smooth high ones; white flowers, and berries scarlet color. DOMESTIC HAPPINESS. Gentle at home, amid my friends, I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly tree, SENTIMENT. Oh ! could I one dear being find, And were her fate to mine but joined By Hymen's silken... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh...friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 840 pages
...Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit iu the after time. 4. Thus, thougli abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere,...amid my friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly-Tree. Wutbury, 1798. And should my youth, as youth is apt, 1 know, Some harshness show, All vain... | |
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And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. 
