There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. The Sale-room - Pàgina 1741817Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| John P. Gunning - 1900 - 264 pàgines
...powers of poetical execution and exquisite imagery: There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; That power and its music I never forget, But... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1868 - 626 pàgines
...Rookh ;" she had soon learnt its seductive songs by heart. " There's a bower of roses by Bendemere's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the...like a sweet dream To sit in the roses, and hear the biId's song." The striking of the clock interrupted her. Ten. Ten ! .Why, what could they be about... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1902 - 464 pàgines
...Lisbon among Os Cyprestes, the secular trees in the English grave-yard hard by he lies until this day. There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the Nightingale sings in them all the day long. i So he does over the grave of Harry Fielding. Meanwhile, " Luget Britannia... | |
| Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - 1906 - 864 pàgines
...HUNDRED COLUMNS (The North Tomb in the Background) CHAPTER XXI SHIRAZ, THE HOME OF THE PERSIAN POETS ' There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream And...like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the birds' song. The bower and its music I never forget, But oft when alone in the bloom of the year I... | |
| 1906 - 602 pàgines
...our early love and I am here to claim the promise its meaning implies." FRAGMENTS. There's a. bovver of roses by Bendemeer's stream, . And the nightingale sings round it all the day longj In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream To sit in the roses and hear the bird's... | |
| Eleanor Talbot Kinkead - 1907 - 496 pàgines
...attempts to divert his attention ; and once more he picked up the book and turned to a favourite page. "There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And...time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream,—" He gently closed the book. It was utterly useless. For a few moments he sat gazing into the fire. Then... | |
| Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt - 1910 - 366 pàgines
...of the Bundamir with nothing to materialise the picture that they had always previously conjured up: There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And...like a sweet dream To sit in the roses and hear the birds' song. That bower and its music I never forget, And oft when alone, in the bloom of the year,... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1910 - 294 pàgines
...I should learn. In Persia one must do as the Persians do. And I could not forget that — There 'sa bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long. Now and then there would be a journey on the water. 'T is moonlight over Oman's sea, Her banks of pearl... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1910 - 306 pàgines
...I should learn. In Persia one must do as the Persians do. And I could not forget that — There 'sa bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long. Now and then there would be a journey on the water. 'T is moonlight over Oman's sea, Her banks of pearl... | |
| John Walter Davis - 1913 - 418 pàgines
...withered that hung o'er the wave, But some 1. There's a bow - er of rp - ses by Ben -demeer's stream.And the night-in-gale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my blos-soms were gathered while freshly they shone, And a dew was dis child-hood 'twas like a sweet dream... | |
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