 And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.  The Country Gentleman's Magazine - Page 280by Simpkin Marshall & Co. - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1799 - 320 pages
...the Holly Tree. VI. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they,...when the bare and wintry woods we see What then so chearful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poetry - 1805 - 224 pages
...the Holly Tree. 1 3 And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they,...when the bare and wintry woods we see What then so chearful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...upon the Holly Tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they,...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree? mechanical and irresistible facility. His Essays, or political and moral disquisitions, are not so... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...bright and green, The Holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they, But when the hare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree? mechanical and irresistible facility. His Essays, or political and moral disquisitions, are not so... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...Tree. And, as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their faded hues display, Less bright than they ; But when the...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree! So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
 | 664 pages
...Tree. And, as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their faded hues display, Less bright than they ; But when the...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree! So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
 | 1830 - 492 pages
...Holly-Tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly-leaves a sober hue display Less bright than they ; But when the bare...we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly- Tree? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823 - 258 pages
...upon the Holly Tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they...when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so chearful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...upon the holly-tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they...wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...upon the Holly Tree ! And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
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