The Changing Year: Being Poems and Pictures of Life and NatureCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1882 - 192 pàgines |
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The Changing Year: Being Poems and Pictures of Life and Nature Changing year Visualització completa - 1882 |
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auld lang syne autumn beauty beneath birds bloom blossom blue blush boat breeze bright British oak brooklet carol music Cassell's Cephissus charm cheek choragus Christmas cloth gilt clouds creep crown cuckoo dark dear Robin diamonds sparkling doth dream earth Edition eyes face fade fair fairy flowers glad glow gold golden golden reign grey hair hand happy hath hear heart hope Illustrations JOHN FRANCIS WALLER joyous thing kiss light linger LITTLE QUEEN maiden meadows melody merry morn morocco neath nigh night o'er pale passed peep purple clover queen ring ripple rose round ROW green sailed secret shared shadows shine shore sigh silent silver sing skies sleep smiling snow soft song SONNET sorrow spring sunshine sweet tears tender thee thou thrush to-day trees voice Vols waves WEATHERLY Whilst whisper whitebait wife winds wings winter wonders woods youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 96 - Sleepless; and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth : So do not let me wear to-night away : Without thee what is all the morning's wealth ? Come, blessed barrier betwixt day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joy.ous health...
Pàgina 191 - YES, the Year is growing old, And his eye is pale and bleared ! Death, with frosty hand and cold, Plucks the old man by the beard, Sorely, — sorely...
Pàgina 14 - WHEN the warm sun, that brings Seed-time and harvest, has returned again, 'Tis sweet to visit the still wood, where springs The first flower of the plain.
Pàgina 15 - Inverted in the tide Stand the gray rocks, and trembling shadows throw, And the fair trees look over, side by side, And see themselves below.
Pàgina 96 - ... FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry.