 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 Seiten
...bright than they; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree. So would I seem, amid the young and gay, More grave...as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly tree. THE EVENING RAINBOW. MILD arch of promise ! on the evening sky SOUTHEY. Thou shinest fair... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 Seiten
...bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1853 - 422 Seiten
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 Seiten
...the bare and wintry woods we see, "What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? Less bright than they ; So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless...as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly tree. MISLETOE. EOBEBT SorTHIT. The misletoe, or misseltoe, receives the Latin name of viscum... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 Seiten
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree, So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary,... | |
 | 1855 - 122 Seiten
...then so cheerful as the holly tree 1 So bright and green, The holly leaves their fadeless hues display So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless...as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly tree. THE WEE FLOWER. SOUTHET. Oh, fresh was the air where it reared its head, Wi' the radiance... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1855 - 590 Seiten
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng; So would I seem among the young and guy More graft than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary,... | |
 | George Winfred Hervey - 1856 - 312 Seiten
...More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be, As the green winter of the Holly Tree." The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid the young and gay, Before the face of gravity all vice and irréligion is awe-struck and abashed. Beneath its calm and... | |
 | William Hunter (rector of Ayr acad.) - 1857 - 130 Seiten
...holly tree ? So serious should my youth appear among Less bright than they; The thoughtless throng, Bo would I seem amid the young and gay, More grave than...I might be As the green winter of the Holly-Tree. They melted from the field, as snow, "When streams are swoln, and south winds blow, Dissolves in silent... | |
 | 1857 - 336 Seiten
...they,— But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree ?— " So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem, among the young and gay, More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green... | |
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7. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be -As the green winter of the Holly-Tree. 
