 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 - 1845 - 848 pages
...Tree. 6. 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 and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the'llolly Tree ? 7. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they, Bat when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree 1 So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1845 - 848 pages
...Tree. 6. And as when all the summer trees are sem So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue display Less bright than they. But when the bare and wintry woods we sec, What then so cheerful a* the Holly Tre* t 7. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless... | |
 | 1847 - 828 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... | |
 | 1848 - 650 pages
...Tree. 6. 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...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree ? 7. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng : So would I seem amid the young... | |
 | Sketches - Agriculture - 1848 - 422 pages
...age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. " And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly-leaves their fadeless...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 amid... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 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... | |
 | William Ewart - Dictation (Educational method) - 1849 - 94 pages
...the after-time. 3. For, 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 ? 4. So, serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So, would I seem among the young... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 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 would I seem, amid the young and gay, More grave than they; That in my age as cheerful I might... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...Holly Tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hne display Less bright than they ; But, when the bare...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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