 The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage; the fir that weepeth still; The willow, worn of forlorn paramours; The yew, obedient to the bender's will; The birch for shafts; the sallow for the mill; The...  The Thebaid of Statius - Page 249by Publius Papinius Statius - 1767Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...their song to scorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry ; The builder oak, sole king of forests all ; The aspen, good for staves; the cypress funeral ; The laurel, meed of mighty... | |
 | Book - 1837 - 232 pages
...delight, and love to haunt Her sacred shades. MILTON. The trees so straight and high, The sailing Fine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop Elm, the Poplar never dry, The builder Oak, sole king of forests all ; The Aspen, good for staves ; the Cypress, funeral ; The Laurel, meed of... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 542 pages
...many kinds of trees as the poet could call to mind, in the description of a forest, — The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspine good for staves, the cypress funeral. with thirteen more in the... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...in their song to scorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so strait and high, The sailing Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop Elm, the Poplar never dry, The builder Oak, sole king of forests all, The Aspin good for staves, the Cypress funeral, The Laurel, meed of mighty... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...useful purposes to which they can be applied. The trees so straight and high, The sailing Pine.the Cedar proud and tall. The vine-prop Elm, the Poplar never dry, The builder Oak, sole king of forests all ; The At.pin, good for staves; the Cypress, funeral; The Laurel, meed of mighty... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 pages
...description of the trees of the forest : — " Much can I praise the trees so straight and high ; The sayling pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forrests all, The aspine good for staves, the cypresse funerall, The laurell, meed of... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...every variety of foliage "in that mountainous country beautified with woods," and told of " The sayling pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forest tall, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral." Book I, Canto II, v. 8.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...their song to scorn the cruel sky. 1 Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral.* Artificial flowers look... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...their song to acorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for Etaves, the cypress funeral.' Artificial flowers look... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...their song to scorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing sole king of forests all, The Aspin good for staves, the Cypress funeral. The Laurel, meed of mighty... | |
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