 MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the...  Notes and Queries - Page 821887Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 468 pages
...very complete picture of cottage life in his little poem, which thus sets out, Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear: A willowy...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. We mention all these, not of course, as a thousandth part of what our literature contains of country-houses... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 pages
...very complete picture of cottage life in his little poem, which thus sets out, Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear: A willowy...turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. We mention all these, not of course, as a thousandth part of what our literature contains of country-houses... | |
 | Kenneth Grahame - 1916 - 368 pages
...merry Companions return'd in a throng. WILLIAM ROSCOE. anf c preferencea A Wish Mine be a. cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A...turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... | |
 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1917 - 60 pages
...mischief in ' the house, as her mother could see through ] the open door. 2. A Wish. Mine be a cot besi'de the hill : A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With 5 many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, benea'th my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built... | |
 | William A. Murrill - 1918 - 288 pages
...have honey." And her prospective husband probably shared the same sentiments. " Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A...turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew ; And Lucy, at her wheel,... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
...Gubernator, morocco, vellum, cameo, meerschaum, buhl, recumbent, Midas. A WISH Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ;...turns a. mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ', Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core. William Butler Yeats [1865A WISH MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A...turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
...Gubernator, morocco, vellum, cameo, meerschaum, buhl, recumbent, Midas. A WISH Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ;...turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 pages
...And yet I am hid in the depth of the well. (Letter E.) 6. Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. — ROGERS : A Wish. Select details for the wish of : an idler, a student, a glutton, a child at Christmas,... | |
 | Arthur Mee - 1910 - 690 pages
...life. How true it is that we most admire those things which we have not got ! IVAiNE be a cot beside a hill ; * A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy...that turns a mill With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim... | |
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