 MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the...  Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., - Page 43by John Gibson Lockhart - 1848Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...comes, as it were, to beg for quiet consolation at the poor man's door. What does the poet Rogers say? " Mine be a cot beside the hill, A beehive's hum shall soothe mine ear, A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near." Another great spirit,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...maid he singled from the world. A WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall sooth my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...and skies endure. J. MONTGOMEBY. A WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall sooth my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow oft beneath my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...casinnal poems is, perhaps, that entitled " A Wish." Mine be a cot beside the hill, fi bee-hive'fr hum to soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill. With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 436 pages
...LONDON MAGAZINE. THE COTTAGE HOME.' MUTE be a eot beside a hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe mine ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow oft, beneath my thateh, Shall twitter from the elay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...loves me too : I start, and when the vision's flown, I weep that I am all alone. THE WISH. ROGERS. MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall...turns a mill, "With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft, beneath my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 698 pages
...roaring still for more ! Too faithful mirror ! how dost thou reflect The melancholy face of human life ! Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. Samuel Rogers, ' A Wish.' Your love in a cottage is hungry. Your vine is a nest for flies— Your milkmaid... | |
 | William Ewart - Dictation (Educational method) - 1849 - 94 pages
...every wind ; A hope for times that are unkind And every season. 124. THE WlSH. [SAMUEL KOGERS.] 1. Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall...turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. 2. The swallow oft, beneath my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay -built nest ; Oft shall the Pilgrim... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 698 pages
...The melancholy face of human life ! Young, ' Night Thoughts.1 Country life : — Mine be a cot beeide the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. Samuel Rogers, ' A Wish.' Your love in a cottage in hungry. Your vine is a nest for flies — Your... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...there, Fastened her down for ever I THE WISH. Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum slnll soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft, beneath my thatch, / Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
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