THEY tell us of an Indian tree, Which, howsoe'er the sun and sky May tempt its boughs to wander free, And shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms... The Florist and Garden Miscellany - Page 1471851Full view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...shoot and blossom wide and high, Yet better loves to bend its arms Downwards again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful being, first had birth. E'en thus, though woo'd by flattering friends, And fed with fame (if fame it be), This heart, my own... | |
| English literature - 1823 - 508 pages
...shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful...mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee !' This is the piece which of all others has most made us doubt whether there may not be some more... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1823 - 224 pages
...shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful...though woo'd by flattering friends, And fed with fame ((/1fame it be) This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee ! ILLUSTRATION... | |
| 1823 - 494 pages
...and warms Ils grateful being, first had birth. 'Tis thus, thoagh woo'd by flattering friends, And frd with fame (if fame it be) This heart, my own dear...mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee! VESSEL DASHED TO PIECES BY A WHALE. (Prom the Annual Register of 1821J On the 19th of Nov. 1821, the... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1823 - 226 pages
...shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful being, first had birth. "Pis thus, though woo'd by flattering friends, And fed with fame (j/fame it be) 156 ILLUSTRATION OF... | |
| George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful...mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee ! SIX SORTS OF PEOPLE WHO FAST. The miser fasts because he will not eat ; The poor man fasts because... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful being, first had birth. 'Tis thus, though wooed by flatt'ring friends, And fed with fame (if fame it be) This heart, my own dear mother, bends,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...and blossom, wide .nul ln¡;li. Far better loves to bend ils arms Downward again to tlut dear rarth From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful being, first hud birth. Т is thus, though woo'd by flattering friends And fed with fame (i/ fame it bo), This heart,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1832 - 440 pages
...shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful...though woo'd by flattering friends, And fed with fame (//"fame it be) This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee ! ILLUSTRATION... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...shoot and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful being, first had birth. 'Tis thus, though wooed by flattering! i ¡ends, And fed with fame (if fame it be,) This heart, my own dear mother bends,... | |
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