 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...BUCHANAN READ. THE IVY GREEN. Он 1 a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o 'er ruins old I Of right choice food are his meals I ween, In his...dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealcth on, though he wears... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...O, it's a snug little ISLAND ! A right little, tight little island 1 — Tnos. DIBDIN. Ivy. — Oh, a dainty plant is the IVY green, That creepeth o'er...are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.— DICKENS, PicTcieiek. J. Jack-in... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...recognition by his burial in Westminster Abbey, among the great ones of our race. THE IVY GREEN. On, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Malvern's height, the highest of Trent, ft river which rises In Stafa range of hilla in Worcester and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...blasts from th1 Alps descend, From his firm roots with struggling gusts to rend An aged sturdy oak. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so low and cold. The walls must be crumbled, the slones decay'd, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1878 - 802 pages
...erst he held audiences spell-bound. THE IVY GREEN. Oh ! a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepcth o'er ruins old ! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim : And the mouldering dust that... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1878 - 808 pages
...ice — who gives him •a thought now? Yet erst he held audiences spell-bound. THE IVY GREEN. Oh ! a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! Of right choice food arc his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1878 - 396 pages
...the path thou hast in weakness trod. 63. Oh! a dainty plant is the ivy green FG Lee. That ereepeth o'er ruins old ! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so low and cold. The walls must be crumbled, the stones decayed; To pleasure his dainty whim; And the... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 248 pages
...And our goodfather Tiber Bare bravely up his chin." Dickens speaks of the ivy as a male, — " Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold." Masculine. Feminine. Masculine. Feminine. boar sow. horse mare. boy girl husband wife. brother sister... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 328 pages
...promptings, suggestions. riven, torn. sirens, those who entice to evil ; FIFTH READER. THE IVY. i. Oh ! a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...stones decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mould'ring dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. POISONED BY AN ARROW. 2. Fast he stealeth... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...one. The Ivy-Green of DICKENS is a gem of the purest water : — Oh ! a dainty plant is the Ivy-green, that creepeth o'er ruins old ! Of right choice food...crumbled, the stones decayed, to pleasure his dainty whim ; / /^u^^.7 / jrh.7i szt£_ the mould'ring dust that years have m?rle is a merry meal for him. Creeping... | |
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The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no... 
