 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...may of humankind. I've stood beside the cottage-bed Where the bard-peasant first drew breath; then A straw-thatched roof above his head, A straw-wrought...couch beneath. And I have stood beside the pile., Ilismoiumiont — that tells to heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle To that bard-peasant given.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...canonized his mind; And it is joy to speak the best We may of human kind. I've stood beside the cottage-bed Where the Bard-peasant first drew breath; A straw-thatched...couch beneath. And I have stood beside the pile, His monument—that tells to Heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle To that Bard-peasant given! Bid... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1888 - 180 pages
...Halleck the American poet as he sings, ' I Ve stood beside the cottage bed Where that bard peasant first drew breath, A straw-thatched roof above his...straw-wrought couch beneath. And I have stood beside that pile, His monument, that tells to heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle, To that bard peasant... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1893 - 274 pages
...breath ; A straw-thatch'd roof above his bed, A straw-wrought couch beneath. And I have stood beneath the pile, His monument, that tells to Heaven The homage...earth's proudest isle, To that bard-peasant given. Bid thy thoughts hover o'er that spot, Boy-minstrel, in thy dreaming hour ; And know, however low his... | |
 | Robert Brown (F.S.A., Scot.) - 1893 - 408 pages
...exclaim with pride, in a figurative, if not in a literal sense, " And I have stood beside the pile, The monument that tells to heaven, The homage of earth's proudest isle, To that Bard-peasant given." (Loud applause.) Mr. THO. MACROBERT, in proposing the next toast, said — Chairman, croupiers, and... | |
 | Arthur Beaman Simonds - 1894 - 344 pages
...his mind ; And it is joy to speak the best We may of human kind. I 've stood beside the cottage-bed Where the Bard-peasant first drew breath ; A straw-thatched...roof above his head, A straw-wrought couch beneath. 1 Brae, declivity or broken ground. And I have stood beside the pile, His monument—that tells to... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...of human kind. I've stood beside the cottage bed Where the Bard Peasant first drew breath ; a ft (M A straw-thatched roof above his head, A straw-wrought...tells to heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle To the Bard Peasant given ! Bid thy thoughts hover o'er that spot, Boy minstrel, in thy dreaming hour;... | |
 | 1899 - 408 pages
...tion, that which fits for a des' ti tute, completely lacking. duty or work. ROBERT BURNS. FITZ-GREETTE HALLECK. I've stood beside the cottage bed Where the...of earth's proudest isle To that bard-peasant given ! Bid thy thoughts hover o'er that spot, Boy minstrel, in thy dreaming hour ; And know, however low... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 pages
...joy to speak the best We may of human kind. I've stood beside the cottage bed Where the Bard Peasant first drew breath ; A straw-thatched roof above his...tells to heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle To the Bard Peasant given ! Bid thy thoughts hover o'er that spot, Boy minstrel, in thy dreaming hour... | |
 | 1899 - 434 pages
...tion, that which fits for a cles' ti tute t completely lacking. duty or work. ROBERT BURNS. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. I've stood beside the cottage bed Where the...couch beneath. And I have stood beside the pile, His monument—that tells to Heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle To that bard-peasant given ! Bid... | |
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Where the Bard-peasant first drew breath; A straw-thatched roof above his head, A straw-wrought couch beneath. And I have stood beside the pile, His monument — that tells to Heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle To that Bard-peasant given... 
