 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 Seiten
...whffeh iibpiorts holy hair." • " f «i " There is a yew tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to tills day stands single in the midst ,Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heaths, or those that crossed the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 Seiten
...with a sally and a flash of speed, As if they scorned both resting-place and rest t YEW-TREES. Tnits is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this...stood of yore. Not loth to furnish weapons for the Rands Of Umfravillc or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's Heaths ; or those that crossed the Sea... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit home for thee ! YEW-TREES. THERK is a Y'ew-tree, pride of Lorton-Vale, . 3 Nor loth to furnish weapons for the Bands Of Umfravillc and Percy ere they marched To Scotland's Heaths... | |
 | 1829 - 476 Seiten
...veiled Helvellyn, or the windy gloom of Ull's Water. But let Wordsworth speak :— There li a yew tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single In the midst Of Its own darkness,—as it stood of yore. Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Uinfraville or Percy,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...we pace Again 'appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit home for thee ! YEW TREES. THERE is a yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to...single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of y6re, Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's... | |
 | 1830 - 614 Seiten
...description of extraordinary Yew trees we arc indebted to the шш* of Wordsworth. " There is a Yew tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Nor loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of Umphraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heaths,... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1831 - 388 Seiten
...stood, And plann'd the charter for their country's good." I may also notice " The pride of Lorton's vale, Which to this day stands single in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore ; Nor loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of Umphraville or Percy, ere they march'd To Scotland's... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1835 - 470 Seiten
...in its native habitat. Wordsworth has well described the appearance of the yew in Cumberland — " There is a yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to...darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of UmfreYille, or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heaths, or those that crossed... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1835 - 472 Seiten
...in its native habitat. Wordsworth has well described the appearance of the yew in Cumberland — " There is a yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to...darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of UmfreYille, or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heaths, or those that crossed... | |
 | 1835 - 466 Seiten
...and mentions the extreme slowness of their growth: "There is a yew-tree, pride of I.orton Vule, "Mil to this day stands single in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not lolh to furnish weapons in the hands Of Urofreville or Percy, ere they marched lo Scotland's heaths,... | |
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To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form... 
