 | John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 276 页
...Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God. MBS. HEHANS.* 5.— THE PET LAMB. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink...looking o'er the hedge, before me I espied A snow-white mountain-lamb with a Maiden at its side. Nor sheep nor kine were near ; the lamb was all alone, And... | |
 | E. Wadham - 1869 - 154 页
...instance, Wordsworth's ' Pet Lamb,' though, the piece being so simple, either way is equally suitable. The dew was falling fast, The stars began to blink...snow-white mountain lamb,' With a maiden at its side. * Next, the four-foot couplet is a form that has been much used even for the longest poems, Butler's... | |
 | David Caughie - 1869
...harmless. What do people sometimes make of them, being so harmless? Pets, THE DEW WAS FALLING. THK dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink ; I...I espied A snow-white mountain lamb, with a maiden by its side. No other sheep was near, the lamb was all alone, And by a slender cord was tether'd to... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869
...laugh|ing soi When Sum|mer's balm|y showers | refresh | the mow|er's toil. Heber. The dew |'was fall | ing fast, |the stars | began| to blink; I heard | a voice,...look|ing o'er | the hedge, | before | me, I | espied A snow- | white mount |ain lamb, | with a maid | en at | its side. Wordsworth. An hvm|dred val|iant men... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1870
...parent, the mother of a beast. YEAN, to bring forth. DRAUGHTS, quantities to drink. PAST'-IME, sport. THE dew was falling fast, the stars began to BLINK...snow-white mountain lamb with a maiden at its side. No other sheep were near, the lamb was all alone, And by a slender cord was TETHERED to a stone ; With... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870
...! O thought at random cast ! Ye were but little at the first, But mighty at the last. THE PET LAMB. THE dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink...snow-white mountain lamb with a maiden at its side. No other sheep were near, the lamb was all alone, And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone, With... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870
...! 0 thought at random cast ! Ye were but little at the first, But mighty at the last. THE PET LAMB. THE dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink...snow-white mountain lamb with a maiden at its side. No other sheep were near, the lamb was all alone, And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone, With... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - 1870 - 597 页
...Secondary Cesural. b. The Iambic hexameter or Alexandrine, requires the Cesural after the third foot. 17. The dew was falling fast, || the stars began to blink;...voice; it said, || " Drink, pretty creature, drink 1" c. As a general rule, the cesural should not fall in the same place in several successive verses,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1870
...PET LAMB. A PASTORAL. HE dew was falling faft, the ftars began to blink; I heard a voice : it faid, " Drink, pretty creature, drink ! " And, looking o'er the hedge, before me I efpied A fnow-white mountain lamb, with a maiden at its fide. No other fheep was near, the lamb was... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 522 页
...the beautiful dale of Legberthwaite, along the high road between Keswlck and Amblesde. A PASTORAL. THE dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink...snow-white mountain, lamb with a maiden at its side. No other sheep were near, the lamb was all alone, And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone ; With... | |
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THE dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink ; I heard a voice ; it said, " Drink, pretty Creature, drink ! " And, looking o'er the hedge, before me I espied A snow-white mountain Lamb with a Maiden at its side. No other sheep were near, the Lamb... 
