| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 286 oldal
...attempt, till trees shall speak again ! Time made thee what tliou wast, king of the wood And Time liath made thee what thou art, a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign; and the numerous flocks That grazed it stood beneath... | |
| William Cowper - 1877 - 104 oldal
...facts Recovering, and misstated setting right — Desperate attempt, till trees shall speak again ! Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods ;...thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign ; and the numerous flocks That grazed it, stood beneath... | |
| George Frederick L. Bampfield - 1880 - 544 oldal
...Cowper, the poet of Berkhampstead, sing of the " Yardley " oak, and we venture to make a short extract. Time made thee what thou wast — king of the woods...thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in While thus thro' all the stages thou hast pushed Of treeship — first a seedling, hid in grass ; Then... | |
| William Cowper - 1880 - 86 oldal
...thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And all thy embryo vastness, at a gulp, Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods;...thee what thou art, — a cave For owls to roost in. a o Q PS O tc, [The manuscript of the poem on the Oak, is in the possession of W. H, Collingridge,... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 oldal
...facts Recovering, and misstated setting right — Desperate attempt, till trees shall speak again ! Time made thee what thou wast — king of the woods...thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign ; and the numerous flock That grazed it stood beneath... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1882 - 406 oldal
...his death, a poem entitled 'Yardley Oak,' was fuund among his papers, beginning •• Time míide thee what thou wast — King of the Woods ! And time hath made thee what thou art — u cave For owls to roost in ! " 1 m. E. of Olney is Clifton Seynes, •with an early Dec. Church.... | |
| William Cowper - 1883 - 274 oldal
...facts Recovering, and misstated setting right — Desperate attempt, till tree shall speak again ! Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods,...thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign ; and the numerous flocks That grazed it stood beneath... | |
| 1883 - 462 oldal
...latitnde of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. But Fate thy growth decreed. * • • ****** Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods ; And Time hath made what thou art, a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'er hung the champain ; and... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 oldal
...this stand the remains of the Yardley Oak, the subject of one of the poet's noblest compositions : " Time made thee what thou wast — king of the woods,...thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign, and the numerous flocks That grazed it stood beneath... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 oldal
...this stand the remains of the Yardley Oak, the subject of one of the poet's noblest compositions : " Time made thee what thou wast — king of the woods,...thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign, and the numerous flocks That grazed it stood beneath... | |
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