 | Robert Southey - 1809 - Страниц: 292
...heaven ! WESTBURY, 1798. THE HOLLY-TREE. 1. O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree ? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy...wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. 2. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through their... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - Страниц: 392
...contented to be poor. UEOHOE CRABBE. THE HOLLY TREE. O HEADER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives...Wrinkled and keen, — No grazing cattle, through thek prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - Страниц: 246
...stood to see The holly tree P The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves, Order'd by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves arc seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - Страниц: 408
...tears, An over-payment of delight ? THE HOLLY TREE. Oh, Reader ! hast thou ever stood to seo The Holly Tree ? . The eye that contemplates it well perceives...seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through then- prickly round Can reach to wound; But, as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed... | |
 | Frances Sargent Locke Osgood - 1863 - Страниц: 310
...protecting spines being no longer necessary." O reader ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy...Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound an atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled and keen; No grazing... | |
 | 1864 - Страниц: 742
...Order'd by an intelligence so wise, As might confouud the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circlin? fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No...cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound ; Bnt as it grows where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. Thus, though... | |
 | 1866 - Страниц: 288
...heaven ! WESTBUKY, 1798. THE HOLLY-TREE. 1. O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy...wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. 2. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through their... | |
 | James Cundall - 1866 - Страниц: 554
...of cattle, were without this defence, quoting Southey's beautiful but incorrect lines in support : "Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound an atheist's sophistries. " Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - Страниц: 302
...Still is the frequent air, and loth to lose Day's grateful warmth, tho' moist with falling dews." 6. " The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy...wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries." 7. " There is an old poor man, Who after me hath many a weary step Limped in pure love." 8. " Follow... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - Страниц: 160
...noble lines by one of our English poets : — " O reader ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly-tree ? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy...Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound an Atheist's sophistries. " Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing... | |
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The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves, Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. 
