| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 страници
...soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. O think not my spirits. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. Rick and ran. There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 страници
...awake As those that sparkle here ! RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE.f \ in '/'»' Summer is coming. and Company ione and lovely through this bleak way ? Are Erin's sons so good or so cold As not to be tempted by... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 284 страници
...SHE WORE. RICH and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore; But, 0, her beauty was far beyond Her sparkling gems or snow-white wand. " Lady ! dost thou not fear to stray, So loue and lovely, through this bleak wayP Are Erin's sons so good or so cold As not to be tempted by... | |
| 1876 - 286 страници
...bright May morn, When first you were my bride. Lady Du/erin. RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE. RICH and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore ; But, O, her beauty was far beyond Her sparkling gems or snow-white wand. " Lady ! dost thou not fear to... | |
| Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 страници
...against the stream, or when we make a crooked wand straight by bending it the contrary way — BACON. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. — T. MOORE. Warn. To refuse : also, to summon. A droppe of water him was warn'd. — GOWER. And sent... | |
| William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1877 - 624 страници
...robbed of her clothes or jewels.' This forms the subject of one of the sweetest melodies of Moore :— Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright...oh ! her beauty was far beyond Her sparkling gems and snow-white wand. Janus Nicius Crytraeus relates that a certain pope had a tame raven, which secreted... | |
| 1877 - 362 страници
...are neither RICH nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. POPE, To Arbuthnot, 1. 169. — RICH and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. MOORE, Rich and Rars. Riches. — Let none admire That RICHES grow in hell : that soil may best Deserve... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1877 - 628 страници
...I must ask her (who was she, I wonder!) for the fiftieth time, and without ever stopping, Does she not fear to stray, So lone and lovely through this bleak way, And are Erin's sons so good or so cold, As not to be tempted by more fellow-creatures at the paddle-box... | |
| G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 страници
...neither RICH nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. POPE, To Arbuthnot, 1. 169. — Kicn and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. MOORE, Rich and Rare. Riches. — Let none admire That RICHES grow in hell : that soil may best Deserve... | |
| James Burke - 1879 - 276 страници
...knight, a stranger from a distant land, who came to behold the far-famed glory of Catholic Ireland — ' Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright...far beyond Her sparkling gems or snow-white wand." " How fared it with the bards during this longprotracted agony of national woe t They still animated... | |
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