 | Country life - 1842 - 576 pages
...HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY." Opposite to this, at the other end of the hall, was another, reading thus: — «THE WORLD WAS SAD THE GARDEN WAS A WILD, AND MAN THE HEU.MIT SII1IIED — TILL \Vti.MAN SMILED." But if the hall was beautifully decorateil, what shall... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...mingling measure played ; The summer wind that shook the spangled tree, The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee ; — Still slowly passed the melancholy...! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed — till woman smiled ! 35. FREEDOM. — Cowper* Fair freedom has a thousand charms to show,... | |
 | English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...wind, that shook the spangled tree, The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee ; Still slowly pass'd the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not...wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled ! True, the sad power to generous hearts may bring Delirious anguish on his fiery wing ; Barr'd... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...wind that shook the spangled tree,' The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee. Still slowly pass'd the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not...wild — And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled. 3 For only those can paint the wild delight, When kindred souls by some rare chance unite;... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...wind that shook the spangled tree, The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee ; — StUl slowly pass'd the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not...! — the garden was a wild ; And man, the hermit, aigh'd — till woman smiled ! True, the sad power to generous hearts may bring Delirious anguish on... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1278 pages
...Midnight lay coil'd in forests dim ; And gay narcissuses are sweet Wherever glide those holy feet — f " The World was sad, the garden was a wild, And Man. the Hermit, sigh'd— till Woman smiled. CAMrRELL. Now, pours the bird that haunts the eve The earliest song of love, Now in the heart... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...the bee;Still slowly pass'd the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to stray,The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till Woman sm THE SCEPTIC. OH! lives there, Heav'n! beneath thy dread expanse, One hopeless, dark Idolater of... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...shook the spangled tree, The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee ; — 233 UNITED STATES SPEAKER Still slowly passed the melancholy day, And still...! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed — till woman smiled ! 35. FREEDOM. — Coicpen Fair freedom has a thousand charms to show,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...mingling pleasure played ; The summer wind that shook the s]«tngled tree, The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee; — Still slowly passed the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to ¡"tray; — The world was sad ! — the garden was u T:id I A.nd Man, the hermit, sighed — till... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...the bonk of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; or portrays with ginary paradise where . , The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man, the hermit, sighed till woman smiled ; or transports us to that awful time when Christian faith remains unshaken... | |
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