 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1925 - 502 pages
...For it is thou alone that keep'st the soul awake. How calm and quiet a delight Is it alone To reaJ, and meditate, and write ; By none offended, and offending...And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease f VI. O my beloved Nymph 1 fair Dove I Princess of Rivers ! how I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1925 - 502 pages
...it is thou alone that keep'st the soul awake. T. How calm and quiet a delight Is it alone To reaJ, and meditate, and write ; By none offended, and offending...And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease ! O my beloved Nymph 1 fair Dove ! Princess of Rivers ! how I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie, And... | |
 | Gerald G. P. Heywood - Dove River, Eng. (Derbyshire) - 1928 - 238 pages
...converse at will, And would be glad to do so still, For, it is thou alone, that keep'st the Soul awake. y. How Calm, and quiet a delight, Is it, alone To read,...and, offending none ? To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at ones own ease I And, pleasing a Mans self, none other to displease. VI. Oh my beloved Nymph fair Dove... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...converse at will, And would be glad to do so still, For it is thou alone that keep'st the soul awake. your feet, love! JOHN FRANCIS WALLER. BELIEVE ME, IF ALL 0 my beloved nymph, fair Dove, Princess of rivers, how I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie, And view... | |
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How calm and quiet a delight Is it, alone, To read and meditate and write, By none offended, and offending none ! To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at one's own ease ; And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease. 
