 | 1803 - 400 pages
...idea of the talent of the youth who could write it at the *ge of thirteen : — TO AX EARLY PRIMROSE. Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Whose modest form, so delicately fine. Was nurs'd in whirling storms < And cradled in the winds. Xhee, when young spring first question'd winter's... | |
 | Women - 1822 - 634 pages
...drew, A sigh from her bosom, a tear from her eye. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE, BY THE LATE HENRY !. I nh I WHITE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms, And cradled by the winds. ~ Thee, when young spring first question'd winter's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...hold, No more may Heaven her blessings give ; I shall not then be fit to live. E2 TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young spring first question'd winter's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...hold, No more may Heaven her blessings give ; I shall not then be fit to live. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young spring first question'd winter's... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...orbs of light Brighten up the delug'd plains, And the bell fron^ yonder height, TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. WHITE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young Spring first question'd Winter's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...hold, No more may heaven her blessings give, I shall oot then be fit to live. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nurs'd in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young Spring first question'd Winter's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 336 pages
...51 1 . • • • * HI * O ' 1 ' rf i ' ' : . . I . • 3TV«/>. !•:'. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE,' , MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, . :;, 1 ; i. !',' Was nurs'd in whirling storms,•• .i: .; So 6....... A And cradled in the winds*.... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...sire, Whose modest form is delicately tine ! Was nurs'd in whirling storms, And cradled in the wind. Thee, when young spring first question'd winter's...And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on the bank he threw To mark his victory. Tn this low vale, the promise of the year, Serene thou openest... | |
 | United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...following lines were written by HKMRY KIBKE WHITE, at tlie ag« of thirteen.] TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Wa» nurs'd in whirling storms And cradled in the wind. Thee, when young Spring first question'd Winter's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 336 pages
...No more may heaven her blessings give, I shall not then be fit to live. 2 TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE. MELD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine Was nurs'd in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds, Thee when young Spring first question'd Winter's... | |
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MILD offspring of a dark and sullen sire ! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nursed in whirling storms And cradled in the winds. Thee, when young spring first questioned winter's sway. And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this... 
