 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 pagina’s
...four parts and in a tripping anapestic measure. Familiar to most readers is the stanza beginning: " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." Dr. Johnson acknowledged the prettiness of the conceit: " So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that... | |
 | 1917 - 456 pagina’s
...than my cattle unfold ; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me such plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he ne'er could be true, she averred,... | |
 | 1899 - 450 pagina’s
...than my cattle unfold ; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me such plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed; For he ne'er could be true, she averred,... | |
 | Katharine Hamer Shute - 1899 - 248 pagina’s
...than my cattle unfold ; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood pigeons breed, But let me such plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he ne'er... | |
 | University of Maine at Orono - 1926 - 628 pagina’s
...border'd with moss, Where the harebells and violets grow. This part also contains the well-known lines : I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.'" In Solicitude. Corydon urges Phyllis to beware of Pandell ; and in Disappointment, he laments his lost... | |
 | Huber Gray Buehler - 1900 - 308 pagina’s
...princes. 20. Night's candles are burned out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. 21. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood pigeons breed. 22. A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust.... | |
 | Otto Ritter - 1901 - 282 pagina’s
...little here and there of Shenstone,' und vergleicht zur V. Strophe Shenstone's Pastoral Bailad, II, V: 'I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found...wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pagina’s
...Each bird shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, FIRESIDE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POETRY. and teach me to live. She told me say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, AVho could rob a poor bird of... | |
 | 1901 - 756 pagina’s
...little here and there of Shenstone,' und vergleicht zur V. Strophe Shenstone's Pastoral Bailad, U, V: 'I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found...wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pagina’s
...shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 ll bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end....shall rise ; the joyful son Shall finish what his sho say, 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averred, Who could rob a poor bird of... | |
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I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed... 
