 | 1876 - 754 pàgines
...o'er ruins o'ld ! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stones decayed, To pleasure...mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal lor him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though... | |
 | Elizabeth Lloyd - 1876 - 154 pàgines
...it that all nature smiles? What kind of a tree is the aspen? What of the author? THE IVY GREEN. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...old ! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, The walls must be crumbled, the stones decayed. To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust... | |
 | Manfred - 1876 - 204 pàgines
...Long may his noble words survive, to lighten the burdens and lessen the trials of humanity ! — " 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. CANTO I. CANTO I. H ERE press'd the pageantry of... | |
 | English reader - 1875 - 202 pàgines
...Sta'te-11-eBt, grandest. Ste'al-etb, goes softly. Twi'n-eth, embraces. We'en, think. Whim, fancy, caprice. OH, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! On right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The -walls must be crumbled,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 pàgines
...of earth and heaven, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago ! ALFRED DOMMET. k •Efje Ibg ffiwn. 0, A DAINTY plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...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... | |
 | Emma Dent - 1877 - 528 pàgines
...heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings." SHAKESPFARE. " 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. FROM the time when Sudeley... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pàgines
...Henans. THE IVY GREEN. (Fidelity.) OH, a dainty plant is the Ivy Green, That creepeth o'er rains old I Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his...lone and cold. The walls must be crumbled, the stones decay'd, To pleasure his dainty whim ; And the mould'ring dust that years have made Is a merry meal... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pàgines
...little island !— Tnos. DIRDIN. Ivy. — Oh, a dainty plant is the IVY green, That creepeth o'er ruius old ! Of right choice food 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, Pickwick. J. Jack-in-the-Green... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 pàgines
...creeping plant. / ween, I ' believe. Whim, a fancy, a nudden change of the mind. Rare, uncommon.; OH a dainty * plant is the Ivy * green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! On right choice food are his meals, I ween,* In his cell so lone and cold, The walls must be crumbled,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 312 pàgines
...The peaceful Prince of earth and heaven, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago I ALFRED DOMMET. O, 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 cell so lone and cold. The walls must be crumbled,... | |
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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... 
