There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream. And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. Superstitions about Animals - Page 124by Frank F. Gibson - 1904 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - English language - 1871 - 506 pages
...however, has never since accused the English of insensibility. —WASHINGTON IRVING. THE BOWER OF ROSES. THERE'S a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And...long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet drsam, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. P That bower and its music I never forget, But... | |
| Charles Granville Gepp - 1871 - 214 pages
...There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long: That bower and its music I never forget; But oft, when alone in the bloom of the year, I think,—Is the nightingale singing there yet ? Are the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer ?... | |
| John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 412 pages
...lamb is there! There ia no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair! — Longfellow. 46. There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And...it all the day long; In the time of my childhood, 't was like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. — Moore. 46. Whom do we... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1874 - 864 pages
...contribution is very short, and is a parody on the slave's song in the veiled Prophet of Khorassan : — " There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And...the nightingale sings round it all the day long," &c. This is metamorphosed into :— " There's a bower of beauty by Kenuot's olear stream, And a maiden... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...Taylor. PERSIA. Bendcmeer, the River. THE niVEB BENDEMEER. THEKE 'sa bower of roses by Bendemccr's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 't was. like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and its music... | |
| Hyde Parker - English poetry - 1879 - 140 pages
...longer after thee I pine ! Thy mouth thy flimsy worth revealed, Oh, falsely treach'rous Emma mine ! ^THERE'S a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And...bird's song. That bower and its music I never forget, For oft when alone, in the bloom of the year, I think, is the nightingale singing there yet? Are the... | |
| English literature - 1879 - 512 pages
...picturesqueness of the language. Take one of Moore's most characteristic songs or passages, say : — "There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And...like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the birds' song. That hower and its music I never forget, Hut oft when alone, in the bloom of the year,... | |
| Children's literature - 1879 - 782 pages
..." There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer'a stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the night long. In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet...dream To sit in the roses, and hear the bird's song." One by one the pipes were rested on the smokers' knees; they wanted their mouths to hear with. I don't... | |
| Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - Irish poetry - 1879 - 572 pages
...and bolder grown, In the pathetic mode of ISFAHAN" Touch'da preluding strain, and thus began : — There's a bower of roses by BENDEMEER'S stream, And...nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of ray childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and... | |
| 1879 - 516 pages
...picturesqueness of the language. Take one of Moore's most characteristic songs or passages, say : — "There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the ilay long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the... | |
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