| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...Robin's breast ; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...rnhin's hreast ID the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; In the Spring...young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. "' TEJJNTSON. So says our finest living poet ; and turning to the page of another poet, a most eloquent... | |
| Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1855 - 542 pages
...the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest: In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove ; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...the wanton lapwing gets himself another nest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the banish'd dove ; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love : Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish' d dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of lore. Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions... | |
| Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...crimson comes upon the robin's breast, In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the spring a lovelier iris changes on the burnished...time, that of the rural celebration of May-day is well nigh passed into oblivion. Bourne tells us, that in his time, in the villages in the North of... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pages
...crimson comes upon the robin's breast, In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a lovelier iris changes on the burnished...time, that of the rural celebration of May-day is well nigh passed into oblivion. Bourne tells us, that in his time, in the villages in the North of... | |
| East India college - 1856 - 480 pages
...robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; In the Spring...young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." THE HAILEYBUHY OBSERVER. till the fourth seems to be a climax of the whole, rising in melody and in... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions... | |
| Patrick Joseph Murray - 1857 - 366 pages
...saved him from the designation — ugly. And now the common fate was his. Tennyson sings of youth — " In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ; " — and our poet-painter was no exception to the rule. He was the admirer of every pretty girl... | |
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