 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 801887Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...WISH. \ V BY ROGERS. tl' MIME be a cot beside the hill ; IA bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; YA willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch, v." »' ' ,' Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; . f •... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...passions and the cares that wither life, And waste its little hour. WILLIAM C. BEYANT. XXI. A WISH. 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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...passions and the cares that wither life, And waste its little hour. WILLIAM C. HETANT. XXI. A WISH. MIXE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe...turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft. beneath my thateh, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...and sees no more, Loved and still loves, — not dead, but gone before, He gathers round him. A Wish. Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. To a Tear. That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...sky, On all the peaeeful world the smile of Heaven shall lie. EOGEES'S "ECEAL EETEEAT." MINE be a eot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thateh, Shall twitter from her elay-bnilt nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...the smile of Heaven shall lie. ROGERS'S "RURAL RETREAT." MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hivo's many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shako With all the fiercer torture The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 458 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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...Of a manly Suffolk yeoman. A WISH. -SiiruEt BOGEES, born 1762, dicd 1865. Set as a glee by HOESLIY. 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 near her clay -built nest; Oft shaU the pilgrim lift... | |
 | Country life - 1857 - 298 pages
...Vanish into the flood, then, far off, rise again :— Such were their joys ! 94 Howiit. A WISH. iNE 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...When a. spring-lock, t':at lay in ambush there, Fasten'd her down for ever ! 593 A WISH. Mine be ft cot beside the hill ; A beehive's hum shall soothe...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clny-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... | |
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