 | 1611 - 360 pages
...flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And thevines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. 0 my... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - Theology - 1794 - 500 pages
...the turtle [the ftill, fmall mufic of the Holy Spirit's voice, whifpering peace to the confcience] is heard in our land. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs [fruitfulnefs in every good word and work fhall evidence thy revival in grace]; and the vines, with... | |
 | Richard Dagley - Death - 1828 - 562 pages
...past, the rain is over and gone ; the flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.' " The heartfelt kindness of this solicitation was not lost on the lady, who, after a struggle with her apprehensions,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1830 - 508 pages
...flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land : the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with^he tender gra£e give a good smell.' — Our 'Beloved' is ours, and we are His IO that He may... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 642 pages
...cases above detailed, which most of them minister to our pleasures, rather than our sustenance. When the time of the singing birds is come, and the voice of the nightingale is heard in our liuni when the swallow and the swift delight us by their rapid and... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...more striking, and ministers more to the pleasure and delight of man, than their varied song. When the time of the singing birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land, who can be dead to the goodness which has provided for all, such an... | |
 | Natural theology - 1837 - 680 pages
...none is more striking, and ministers more to his pleasure and delight, than their varied song. When the time of the singing birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land, who can be dead to the goodness which has provided for all such an... | |
 | Hunting - 1837 - 570 pages
...melancholy rather than of rejoicing, and I have reason to believe, no person rejoices less, that " the time of the singing birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard," than the gentleman of whom I am speaking. It is, undoubtedly no very pleasing... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...companions, that " the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." Nor is it only when thus blended with heavier trees that its value... | |
 | Percy Bolingbroke St. John - Birds - 1838 - 208 pages
...With the dove none but pleasurable feelings are associated. " The winter is gone and past, the summer is come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." It forms a never-failing image in all the poetry of the heart. It is the messenger of love — it is... | |
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Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. 
