 | Mrs. Frances Sargent (Locke) Osgood - Flower language - 1859 - 300 pages
...are seen, Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound; Eat, as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. SOUTHEY. ILLUSTRATION OF PLATE. Forget-me-not. — Cypress. — Pimpernel. :orget me not, for, alas... | |
 | Great Britain - 1851 - 574 pages
...the world. — Bithop lay lor. THE HOLLY. " O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree ? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere,... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...stood to see The holly-tree ? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves, Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's...fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. " I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize; And in this wisdom of the holly-tree... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 pages
...Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. 2. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled...is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appeal-. 3. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize ; And in this wisdom of the... | |
 | Aesthetics - 1861 - 144 pages
...stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's...fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize ; And in this wisdom of the holly tree... | |
 | 1861 - 972 pages
...to her heart's content. CHAPTEB IV. " O Reader ! hast thou stood to see The Holly Tree ? . . . . " Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm 'd the fruitless leaves appear. " Thus should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...God is felt. MRS. HEMANS. 81. THE HOLLY TREE. OREADER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree 1 The eye, that contemplates it well, perceives Its...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize :... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 402 pages
...his welcome-while And tells the jest without the smile. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 1774—1843. THE HOLL Y TREE. O Reader ! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly Tree...But as they grow where nothing is to fear Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize ;... | |
 | English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 340 pages
...stood to see The holly tree ? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the...fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize : And in this wisdom of the holly tree... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 pages
...? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wine As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below,...fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with anxious eyes And moralise : And in this wisdom of the holly-tree Can... | |
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O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled... 
