...Can cramp the energies of mind 1 Thus, though my heart may seem so small, I 've friends, and 't will contain them all ; And should it e'er become so cold...her blessings give, I shall not then be fit to live. DESCRIPTION OF A SUMMER'S EVE DOWN the sultry arc of day The burning wheels have urged their way ;...

...this slight boon would consecrate to thee, Ere I with Death shake hands, and smile that I am free. arper & Brothers fiue, Was unrsed in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds : — Thee when young Spring first questioned...

...this slight boon would consecrate to thee, Ere I with Death shake hands, and smile that 1 am free. iiursed in whirling storms, And cradled iu the winds : — Thee when young Spring first questioned...

...Primroses, With outspread heart that needs the rough leaves' care. j. GEOBGE MAcDoNALD — Wild Fencers. Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately line, Was nursed in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds. Thee when young spring first question'd...

...but the baby cried for poor Lorraine, Lorree. MINOR POETS. HENRY KIRKE WHITE. Born 1785. Died 1806. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and...so delicately fine, Was nursed in whirling storms, Thee, when young Spring first questioned Winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight,...

...our early spring flowers, Among the earliest of all flowers comes the pale and drooping Snowdrop. " Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire, Whose modest form, so delicately fine. Was nurs'd in whirling storms. And cradled by the wind«. " This flower, so simply elegant in itself, and...

...Embracing hill and vale and stream, And warming nature with his beam. JOHN WOLCOTT, THE EARLY PRIMROSE. ,D offspring of a dark and sullen sire? Whose modest form, so delicately flne, Was nursed in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young Spring first questioned...

...White, entitled, ' The Early Primrose,' in which there is a string of such stanzas as the following : Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire, Whose modest form so delicately pure Was nursed in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Here the English is perfect as well as...

...CSC, " might either be ignored or omitted. Possibly carpers might say that a primrose was not a rose." Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Wild Was nursed in whistling storms Rose And cradled in the winds ! Thee, when young Spring first questioned...

...dungeon's walls, no cell confined, Can cramp the energies of mind ! Thus, though my heait may seem so small I've friends, and 'twill contain them all ; And should...modest form, so delicately fine, Was nursed in whirling storm«, And cradled in the winds» Thee when young Spring first question'd Wintcj » sway» And dared...