 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
 | 1909 - 812 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... | |
 | 1910 - 532 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;...rose : and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why. Kerchief'd head and chin she... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 306 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...the 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... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 310 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...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... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 pages
...cheek.' And there are verses, so perfect is the art, that it seems only Nature could have written : — ' 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.' The ecstasy of this music is... | |
 | 1912 - 408 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;...color, Covert and the nightingale; she knows not why. Kerchiefed head and chin she darts between her tulips, Streaming like a willow gray in arrowy rain:... | |
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - 1912 - 572 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;...the rose; and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale; she knows not why. Kerchief'd head and chin she... | |
 | George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1912 - 652 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1912 - 572 pages
...me hear her laughter, I would have her ever Cool as dew in twilight, the lark above the flowers. AH the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose;...the rose; and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale; she knows not why. Kerchief'd head and chin she... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1913 - 1048 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...rose : and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why. Kerchief'd head and chin she... | |
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