 | 1893 - 844 sider
...crowfoot mars The drowning nenuphars, Waving the tassels of her silken grass Below her silver stars. Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within...nibbled bait, or scornfully Dart off and rise and leap.1 Such delicate workmanship as this poem, which requires to be read at length to be fully appreciated,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1893 - 576 sider
...crowfoot mars The drowning nenuphars, Waving the tassels of her silken grass Below her silver stars. ' Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within...nibbled bait, or scornfully Dart off and rise and leap.' ' Such delicate workmanship as this poem, which requires to be read at length to be fully appreciated,... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1884 - 72 sider
...Yet fliould her roots but try Within thefe deeps to lie, Not her long reaching ftalk could ever hold Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within its hidden depths, and 'gainft a tree Leaning his rod, reads in fome pleafant book, Forgetting foon his pride of filhery -y... | |
 | 1893 - 790 sider
...well-wisher to the game," such a one as Mr. Bridges describes in one of the loveliest of his verses : — " Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within...pleasant book, Forgetting soon his pride of fishery; VOL. IX.— No. 51. L And dreams, or falls asleep, While curious fishes peep About his nibbled bait,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1897 - 548 sider
...describes in one of his prettiest verses : — Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Wsthin its hidden depths, and 'gainst a tree Leaning his...nibbled bait, or scornfully Dart off and rise and leap. How much better to be this angler who only dreams, to have one's creel empty indeed, but one's head... | |
 | 1904 - 1136 sider
...is perhaps not seen here so often, yet there are those who love equally well to read and to fish. " Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within...While curious fishes peep About his nibbled bait." Flowing down through the heart of Old Chester County, the Brandywine enriches many a secluded dale... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1904 - 594 sider
...describes in one of his prettiest verses : — Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Wsthin its hidden depths, and 'gainst a tree Leaning his...in some pleasant book, Forgetting soon his pride of fisher) ; And dreams, or falls asleep, While curious f she s peep About his nibbled bait, or scornfully... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1906 - 738 sider
...try Within these deeps to lie, Not her long reaching stalk could ever hold Her waxen head so high. Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within...nibbled bait, or scornfully Dart off and rise and leap. And sometimes a slow figure "neath the trees, In ancient-fashioned smock, with tottering care, Upon... | |
 | John Russell Hayes - 1910 - 294 sider
...fisherman is perhaps not seen here so often, yet there are those who love equally well to read and to fish. "Sometimes an angler comes and drops his hook Within...While curious fishes peep About his nibbled bait." Flowing down through the heart of Old Chester County, the Brandywine enriches many a secluded dale... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1912 - 498 sider
...try Within these deeps to lie, Not her long reaching stalk could ever hold Her waxen head so high. Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within...nibbled bait, or scornfully Dart off and rise and leap. And sometimes a slow figure 'neath the trees, In ancient-fashioned smock, with tottering care Upon... | |
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Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within its hidden depths, and 'gainst a tree Leaning his rod, reads in some pleasant book, Forgetting soon his pride of fishery ; And dreams, or falls asleep, While curious fishes peep About his nibbled bait,... 
