THERE is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine : And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems Steeply the thickets to his floods decline. Straight trees in every place Their thick tops interlace, ' And pendant branches... The Living Age - Page 2811893Full view - About this book
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1893 - 576 pages
...the head of this article. Mr. Robert Bridges may not be a poet of great force or originality, but he possesses a delicate taste and a devotion to artistic...the pool Eddies away, are tangled mass on mass The water-weeds, that net the fishes cool, And scarce allow a narrow stream to pass ; Where spreading crowfoot... | |
| Robert Bridges - 1884 - 72 pages
...I faw her ftart And^turn afide and tremble ;— ['7] *~pHERE is a hill befide the filver Thames, A Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine : And brilliant underfoot with thoufand gems Steeply the thickets to his floods decline. Straight trees in every place Their thick... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1889 - 222 pages
...Stream,' and all the other verses in which, like a true Etonian, he celebrates the beautiful Thames : • There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine And brilliant under foot with thousand gems Steeply the thickets to his floods decline. I 26 LETTERS ON LITERATURE... | |
| 1891 - 740 pages
...more in the melody of the River, than Mr. Bridges does here ; we only give a fragment of the piece : There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with...thickets to his floods decline. Straight trees in eveiy place Their thick tops interlace, And pendant branches trail their foliage fine Upon his watery... | |
| Henry Vizetelly - 1893 - 468 pages
...parks, the silent woods, the luxuriant hop-gardens, and the sweetsmelling country lanes, where — " Straight trees in every place Their thick tops interlace, And pendant branches trail their foliage fine." Much of the contemplated work was written ; nevertheless more pressing avocations interfered with its... | |
| 1895 - 450 pages
...hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine, And brilliant under foot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods...trees in every place Their thick tops interlace And penJent branches hail their foliage fine Upon his watery face.' The third characteristic of the poetry... | |
| 1896 - 1224 pages
...Along thy wild and willow'd shore. m. Scorr — Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto IV. St. 1. Thames. us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,...Sc. 1. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself n. ROB'T BRIDGES — There is a Hill beside the Silver Thames. Slow let us trace the matchless vale... | |
| Robert Bridges - 1899 - 314 pages
...saw her start And turn aside and tremble ; — Ah ! she was true, her heart I knew did not dissemble. THERE is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with...branches trail their foliage fine Upon his watery face. Swift from the sweltering pasturage he flows : His stream, alert to seek the pleasant shade, Pictures... | |
| 1902 - 730 pages
...indeed, have dealt more lovingly with the Thames than Mr. Bridges. One of the happiest of his poems — There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine, with its many beautiful descriptive touches, carries but one disappointment for the reader • —... | |
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