 THEY are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds ; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses Sere woodlands and sad wildernesses,...  The British Empire Series - Stran 1871900Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1876 - 514 strani
...compare very favorably with anything that poet ever wrote. The following are the opening stanzas : — " They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds ; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1898 - 60 strani
...as the South of England and the South of Australia. None of his verses are more familiar than the 36 Swinburnian dedication to Major Whyte-Melville of...As we all know, many of these bright blossoms have corresponding strong odours, and the very wattle, which, in a later stanza, he so beautifully characterises,... | |
 | Adam Lindsay Gordon - 1901 - 270 strani
...AND SMOKE DRIFT.] Buab Ballabs & Galloping IRb^mee. A DEDICATION. TO THE AUTHOR OF " HOLMBY HOUSE." THEY are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | Percy Fritz Rowland - 1903 - 360 strani
...Gordon the limitations of his muse. His verses are, he says in his dedication to Whyte Melville : " Rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds." * If we put aside his philosophic musings, mostly unoriginal in form and matter, we see that much of... | |
 | Percy Fritz Rowland - 1903 - 366 strani
...limitations of his muse. His verses are, he says in his dedication to Whyte Melville : " Rhymes rudely strong with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds." * If we put aside his philosophic musings, mostly unoriginal in form and matter, we see that much of... | |
 | Adam Lindsay Gordon - 1904 - 364 strani
...last lay of " The Pipe." Bush Ballabs anb Galloping A DEDICATION. TO THE AUTHOR OF " HOLMBY HOUSE." THEY are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds ; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | 1884 - 646 strani
...the source of his inspiration sprang from the land of his adoption rather than that of his birth. " They are rhymes rudely strung, with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds. Where with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses, Sere woodlands, and... | |
 | Bertram Stevens - 1906 - 342 strani
...outlawed years, her early doom, And despair—despair—beyond the tomb? 21 L1ndsay . A DEDICATION THEY are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and sad... | |
 | Robert Pickett Scott - 1907 - 458 strani
...bitterness, wrath, and fear, — Saying — MAN 1s DISTANT, BUT GOD 1s NEAR. T. Pringle. A Dedication | HEY are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | 1908 - 876 strani
...followed your example, we may share in the glory and the joy. A NATIVE SING-SONG. BY MF QUINLAN. " They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...bright blossoms are scentless And songless bright birds ; Where with fire and fierce drought on her tresses Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
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