 While lightly poised the scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood ; The springing trout in speckled pride, The salmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming...  Angling; Or, How to Angle, and where to Go - Seite 127von Robert Blakey - 1871 - 188 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Tobias Smollett - 1777 - 336 Seiten
...unlike the fmelt, which it rivals in delicacy and flavour. Devolving Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And edges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks fo gayly green, May num'rous herds and flocks be feen,... | |
 | Robert Heron - 1799 - 432 Seiten
...Th^ ruthlefs pike, intent on war j The filver eel, and motled par*. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And. hedges flower'd with eglantine. Stitl'dii thy banks fo gaily green. May uum'rous herds and docks be... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 Seiten
...torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course : Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, so gaily green, May numerous herds and flocks be... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 Seiten
...The ruthless pike, intent on waf ; _ Tlie silver eel, and moiled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make) By bowers of birch, and groves of pine; And edges fldwer'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks so gaily green, May numerous herds and rlocks be seenf... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1805 - 308 Seiten
...The ruthlefs pike, intent on war, • The filver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And edges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks fo gaily green May num'rous herds and flocks be feen, And... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 584 Seiten
...The ruthless pile, tatent on war; ! The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch and groves of pine, . And hedges flowered with eglantine. Still on thy banks, so g&Jly green, ' May numerous flocks and herds... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1806 - 604 Seiten
...parent like A charming maze thy waters in, ike, By buwcrs of birch and groves of pine, And hedg -S flowered with eglantine. Still on thy banks, so gaily green, May numerous flocks and herds be teen, And luvsrs chanting o'er the pail, Ami shepherds piping in the dale, And ancient faith that knows... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 Seiten
...intent on war ; The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from their parent lake, A charming ma2e thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And hedges flower' d with eglantine. Still on thy banks so gaily green, May num'rous herds and flocks be... | |
 | Poetry - 1804 - 184 Seiten
...The ruthlefs pike, intent on war ; The filver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from their parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks fo gaily green May num'rous herds and flocks be... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 Seiten
...The ruthless pike, intent on war; The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters 'make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And edges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, so gaily green, May numerous herds, and flocks be seen,... | |
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