 | Tom Hood - 1882 - 234 pages
...and one of the most blithesome and debonair poems of its author : "THE BALLADE OF PROSE AND RHYME. " When the ways are heavy with mire and rut, In November...; But whenever the May-blood stirs and glows, And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose — Then hey ! — for the ripple of laughing rhyme ! " In a theme... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1882 - 224 pages
...and rut, In November fogs, in December snows, When the north wind howls, and the doors are shut — There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever a scent from the whitethorn blows, And the jasmine-stars to the lattice climb, And a Rosalind-face... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1883 - 274 pages
...— for the ripple of laughing rhyme ! ENVOY. IN the work-a-day world, — for its needs and woes, There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever the May-bells clash and chime, Then hey ! — for the ripple of laughing rhyme ! "O NAVIS." (BALLADE.)... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1883 - 272 pages
...and rut, In November fogs, in December snows, When the North Wind howls, and the doors are shut,— There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever a scent from the whitethorn blows, And the jasmine-stars at the casement climb, And a Rosalind-face... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1884 - 274 pages
...pedant-strut, In a changing quarrel of " Ayes " and " Noes," In a starched procession of " If" and " But," — There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever a soft glance softer grows And the light hours dance to the trysting-time, And the secret is told "... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1884 - 228 pages
...and rut, In November fogs, in December snows, When the north wind howls, and the doors are shut — There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever a scent from the whitethorn blows, And the jasmine-stars to the lattice climb, And a Rosalind-face... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1885 - 270 pages
...hey!—for the ripple of laughing rhyme ! ENVOY. IN the work-a-day world,—for its needs and woes, There is place and enough for the pains of prose; But whenever the May-bells clash and chime, Then hey !—for the ripple of laughing rhyme! 1878. "O NAVIS." (BALLADE.)... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1886 - 752 pages
...and rut, In November fogs, in December snows, When the north wind howls and the doors are shut, — There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever a scent from the white thorn blows, And the jasmine-stars at the casement climb, And a Rosalind face... | |
 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1888 - 116 pages
...RHYMES OF A Country Bookworm mr THOMAS HUTCHINSON In the work-a-day world,— for its needs and woes, There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever the May-bells clash and chime, 7 hen hey I for the ripple of laughing rhyme ! — AUSTIN DOBSON. LONDON:... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1888 - 258 pages
...hey! —for the ripple of laughing rhyme! ENVOY. In the work-a-day world,—for its needs and woes, There is place and enough for the pains of prose; But whenever the May-bells clash and chime, Then hey !—for the ripple of laughing rhyme ! It seems to me that in these... | |
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When the north wind howls, and the doors are shut — There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever a scent from the whitethorn blows, And the jasmine-stars... 
