 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
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. — Henry Wotton 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 lift... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...awhile! And I will come again, my luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile. SAMUEL ROGERS (1763-1855) A Wish s of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them...from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... | |
 | Prescott Alphonso Parker - Land use - 1926 - 144 pages
...SERFDOM THE FUNDAMENTAL ESSENTIAL OF A FREE PEOPLE 25 cents for the calendar year A WISH By Samuel 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...1790 SAMUEL ROGERS 1763-1855 434 *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 Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...Tho' it were ten thousand mile. SAMUEL ROGERS (1763-1855) A Wish MINE be a cot beside the hill; 292 my impoverished frieze, Piece out its starved design, and fill my vas The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English poetry - 1927 - 496 pages
...sent the poor old lass to bed, Simply because my fire is going out. SAMUEL ROGERS (1762-1855) 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 lift... | |
 | Laura (Riding) Jackson, Robert Graves - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 200 pages
...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. (Mine be that cot beside the hill. The bee-hives hum shall soothe my ear. A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near). Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose tree in... | |
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