 I have heard tho', that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one link of soft sympathy meet : That's to come — for as yet I, alas ! am a swain Who require, I own it, more links to my chain.  The Beaux of the Regency - Page 96by Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 560 pages
...or in fits tumble down, You reach death ere the doctor can reach you from town. I've heard how that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one...meet; I know nothing of that, for alas! I'ma swain Who require (and I own it) more links to my chain. Your jays and your magpies may chatter on trees, And... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1802 - 84 pages
...heard how that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one Jink of soft sympathymeet ; I'know nothing of that, for alas! I'ma swain, Who requires, I own it, more links to my chain. Derry down, &c. -Your jays and your magpies may chatter on trees, And whisper soft nonsense in groves... | |
 | Henrietta Rhodes - English literature - 1814 - 112 pages
...true than strange, You have nothing to pay ! — the good folks have no change. I've oft heard that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one link of soft sympathy meet ; I know not of that, for alas ! I'ma swain, Who require, I own it, more links to my chain. Your jays and your... | |
 | Henrietta Rhodes - English literature - 1814 - 108 pages
...true than strange, You have nothing to pay! — the good folks have no change. . i I've oft heard that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one link of soft sympathy . .; meet; J know not of that, for alas ! I'ma swain, Who require, I own it, more links to my chain. Your jays... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...sympathymeet; I know nothing of that, for, alas ! I'ma swain Who require (and I own it) morelinkslo my chain. Your jays and your magpies may chatter on trees. And whispersoft nonseme in groves if they please; Bat a house is much more to my mind than a tree, And... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...moon in a fog. And no thought in our head but a ditch and a bo». Derry down, £c. I've heard how that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one link of sweet sympathy meet ; I know nothing of that, for, alas ! I'm no swain Who requires, I own it, more... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - Poetry - 1855 - 490 pages
...the traniport we feel When we capture, in trinmph, two toads and an eel t I have heard though, that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one link of soft sympathy meet : That's to come — for as yet I, alas ! am a swain Who require, I own it, more links to my chain.... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Anthologies - 1867 - 376 pages
...to the transport we feel When we capture, in triumph, two toads and an eel ? I have heard tho', that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one link of soft sympathy meet : That's to come — for as yet I, alas ! am a swain Who require, I own it, more links to my chain.... | |
 | London Mayfair - 1874 - 468 pages
...the transport we feel When we capture, in triumph, two toads and an eel ? I have heard though, that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one link of soft sympathy meet ; That 's to come — for as yet I, alas ! am a swain, Who require, I own it, more links to my chain.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...less true than strange, You have nothing to pay ! the good folks have no change. I've oft heard that love in a cottage is sweet, When two hearts in one link of soft sympathy meet; I know not of that, for, alas ! I'ma swain Who require, I own it, more links to my chain. Your jays and your... | |
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