 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
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 588 pages
...amplifies and embellishes the idea : " Much gan they praise the trees so straight and high ; The Bailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of foresta all, The aspen good fur staves, the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...their song to scorn the cruel sky. 68 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 forrests all, n The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral, IX. The laurel, meed of... | |
 | American Academy of Medicine - Medicine - 1907 - 550 pages
...Spenser's Catalogue of the Trees. 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... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Arbor Day - 1913 - 400 pages
...the roots. Keep out grass and weeds. KINDS OF TREES TO PLANT ADAPTED FROM EDMUND SPENSER 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 for mighty... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Arbor Day - 1909 - 400 pages
...the roots. Keep out grass and weeds. KINDS OF TREES TO PLANT ADAPTED FROM EDMUND SPENSER 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 for mighty... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 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.... | |
 | Newfoundland Council of Higher Education - 1912 - 300 pages
...it shall give up its dead." (i) " 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 huilder oak, sole king of forests all ; The aspen, good for staves ; the cypress funeral." (c) " What... | |
 | James George Needham - Natural history - 1914 - 356 pages
...oak and linden. X. THE FARM WOOD-LOT 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... | |
 | Henry Sweet - Comparative linguistics - 1913 - 640 pages
...description of the trees very closely, but with some significant alterations and additions : 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 . . . Here the oak is no longer... | |
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