 All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose; Up lanes, woods through, they troop in joyful bands. My sweet leads : she knows not why, but now she loiters, Eyes the bent anemones, and hangs her hands.  The Living Age - Page 7001909Full view - About this book
 | James Keighley Snowden - 1905 - 288 pages
...summer clouds, and flitting shapeless, they peopled quiet hours. In her look, one saw them mirrored. Such a look will tell that the violets are peeping,...rose : and, unaware, a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale; she knows not why. Louis Knight's desire of her... | |
 | 1905 - 1002 pages
...summer clouds, and flitting shapeless, they peopled quiet hours. In her look, one saw them mirrored. Such a look will tell that the violets are peeping....rose : and, unaware, a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why. Louis Knight's desire of her... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 258 pages
...value of the dawn of love. For instance, in 1851 he could not have written such a verse as this — All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose...rose : and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why. On the other hand, the early... | |
 | George Meredith - 1906 - 488 pages
...me hear her laughter, I would have her ever i Cool as dew in twilight, the lark above the flowers. All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose...rose : and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why. Kerchiefed head and chin she... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 pages
...me hear her laughter, I would have her ever Cool as dew in twilight, the lark above the flowers. So All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose;...violets are peeping. Coming the rose: and unaware a cry 86 Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale; she knows not why. Kerchief'd... | |
 | Richard Curle - 1908 - 332 pages
...truly represents the real spirit of the abstract emotion, than this stanza from Love in the Valley — All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose...rose : and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why.1 Suddenly and strangely there... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1908 - 1098 pages
...Let me hear her laughter, I would have her ever Cool as dew in twilight, the lark above the flowers. All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose:...violets are peeping, Coming the rose : and unaware a cry Sorings in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why. KerchiePd... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 318 pages
...me hear her laughter, I would have her ever Cool as dew in twilight, the lark above the flowers. I All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose...rose : and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why. Kerchiefed head and chin she... | |
 | 1909 - 838 pages
...trochaic rhythm is for the most part a willing slave. Many sorts of beauty meet in such lines as these: All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose;...loiters, Eyes the bent anemones, and hangs her hands. But the more keenly one admires, the more sadly must one be aware that whereas "sweet" scans short... | |
 | 1909 - 846 pages
...trochaic rhythm is for the most part a willing slave. Many sorts of beauty meet in such lines as these: All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose;...loiters, Eyes the bent anemones, and hangs her hands. But the more keenly one admires, the more sadly must one be aware that whereas " sweet " scans short... | |
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