 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - Gift books - 1833 - 114 pages
...Hellespont, — and I will swim this here." And he has leaped into the waves, and he has crossed the stream, And he has clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam ; O there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain,— But they have heard her father's... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...story-book, that for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont, — and I will swim this here." And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the...clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam ; O there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain,— But they have heard her father's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1850 - 310 pages
...story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont, — and I will swim this here." And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the...clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam ; 0 there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain, — But they have heard her father's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Medicine in literature - 1850 - 310 pages
...in the story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont, — and I will swim this And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the...clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam ; O there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain, — But they have heard her father's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature, Modern - 1851 - 320 pages
...story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont, — and I will swim this here." ,And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the...clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam ; 0 there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain, — But they have heard her father's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1852 - 340 pages
...story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont, — and I will swim this here." And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the...clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam ; O there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain,— But they have heard her father's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1852 - 316 pages
...story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont, — and I will swim this here." And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the...clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam ; 0 there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain, — But they have heard her father's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont — and I will swim this here." And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the shining stream, And he bas clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam ; 0 there were kisses sweet as dew, and words... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...the story-book, that for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont—and I will swim this here." And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the...clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam; 0 there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain, But they have heard her father's step,... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...story-book, that for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont — and I will swim this here." And he has leaped into the waves, and crossed the...clambered up the bank, all in the moonlight gleam; O there were kisses sweet as dew, and words as soft as rain, But they have heard her father's step,... | |
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Then up arose the oysterman, and to himself said he, 'I guess I'll leave the skiff at home, for fear that folks should see; I read it in the story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, Leander swam the Hellespont — and I will swim this here. 
