 THEY tell us of an Indian tree, Which, howsoe'er the sun and sky May tempt its boughs to wander free, And shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 911852Full view - About this book
 | 1880 - 208 pages
...first had birth. 'Tis thus, though wooed by flatt'ring friends, And fed with fame, if fame it be, My heart, my own dear Mother, bends With love's true instinct back to thee. VII. LIFE should be full of earnest work, Our hearts undashed by fortune's frown; Let perseverance... | |
 | 1881 - 300 pages
...From which the life that fills and warms Its grateful being, first had birth. "Pis thus, though wooed by flattering friends, And fed with fame (if fame...Mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee. MOORE. boughs blossom down-wards grateful wooed flat'ter-ing friends instinct Indian tree — The tree... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 pages
...grateful being, first had birth. Tis thus, though wooed by fUtterinj, friends, And fed with fame (if (sane it be), This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee ! MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. SCEPTICISM. ERE Psyche drank the cup that shed Immortal life into her soul,... | |
 | Thomas O'Hagan Baron O'Hagan - 1884 - 446 pages
...Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth From which the life that filla and warms Its grateful being first had birth. Tis...bends With love's true instinct back to thee ! With his beautiful and gentle wife he enjoyed, in his own words, " perfect happiness." The story of their... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 pages
...From which the life that fills and warms Its grateful being first had birth. E'en thus, though wooed by flattering friends, And fed with fame (if fame it be), This heart, my own dear mother, bends With lore's true instinct back to thee. Thomas Moert. THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER. Tis the last rose of summer... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - 1890 - 530 pages
...from which the life, that fills and warms its grateful being, first had birth, e'en thus, though wooed by flattering friends, and fed with fame (if fame...mother, bends, with love's true instinct back to thee. MOORE. 'H à-уáтrij tк roü Qtoïi i IRA loquor, conviva; sed olim in marmore vasto solus eram... | |
 | 1893 - 680 pages
...From which the life that fills and warms Its grateful being first had birth. Tis thus, though wooed by flattering friends And fed with fame (if fame it...mother, bends With love's true instinct back to thee. A certain Italian writer follows up a meditation on the Prodigal Son by one on the Blessed Virgin,... | |
 | Robert George Hobbes - 1893 - 594 pages
...destroy a large crop in a few hours." — Stocqueler's Oriental Interpreter. " And thus, tho' wooed by flattering friends, And fed with fame, if fame...mother, bends With love's true instinct, back to thee." We are now in the midst of the chief Opium district in British India : the cultivation — a Government... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 pages
...From which the life that fills and warms Its grateful being first had birth : Tis thus, though wooed by flattering friends, And fed with fame (if fame...Mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee. Moons. THE TEMPEKATE REGIONS. TUB North Temperate Zone is the work-shop of the world. In the Frigid... | |
 | John J. Pool - 1894 - 486 pages
...Far better loves to bend its arms Downwards again to that dear earth From which the life that fills and warms Its grateful being first had birth : 'Tis...mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee." In an old temple in the city of Allahabad there is what is called by the natives an undecaying banyan... | |
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