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... fields and woods , to which I was more accustomed , oppressed me . In the woods things are close to you , and you touch them and seem to interchange something with them ; but upon the river , even though it be a narrow and shallow one ...
... fields and woods , to which I was more accustomed , oppressed me . In the woods things are close to you , and you touch them and seem to interchange something with them ; but upon the river , even though it be a narrow and shallow one ...
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John Burroughs. either side , and hid the fields and the farm- houses and the road that ran near by , -these things and others aided the skimmed milk to cast a gloom over my spirits that argued ill for the success of my undertaking ...
John Burroughs. either side , and hid the fields and the farm- houses and the road that ran near by , -these things and others aided the skimmed milk to cast a gloom over my spirits that argued ill for the success of my undertaking ...
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... field , and those ruminating leg - deep in the water turned their heads a my approach , swallowed their unfinished cuds , and scampered off as if they had seen a spectre . I surprised the fish on their spawning - beds and feeding ...
... field , and those ruminating leg - deep in the water turned their heads a my approach , swallowed their unfinished cuds , and scampered off as if they had seen a spectre . I surprised the fish on their spawning - beds and feeding ...
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... field at work while he can yet see stars catches their first matin hymns . In the longest June days the robin strikes up about half - past three o'clock , and is quickly followed by the sparrow , the oriole , the cat - bird , the wren ...
... field at work while he can yet see stars catches their first matin hymns . In the longest June days the robin strikes up about half - past three o'clock , and is quickly followed by the sparrow , the oriole , the cat - bird , the wren ...
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... ing at ease directly under a sloping roof , after toil or travel in the hot sun , and look- ing out into the rain - drenched air and fields . It is such a vital , yet soothing spectacle . PEPACTON : A SUMMER VOYAGE . 35.
... ing at ease directly under a sloping roof , after toil or travel in the hot sun , and look- ing out into the rain - drenched air and fields . It is such a vital , yet soothing spectacle . PEPACTON : A SUMMER VOYAGE . 35.
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Page 115 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting ° martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry ° that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,° frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 249 - WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 229 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 222 - More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
Page 267 - ALONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold That tawny Incas for their gardens wrought, Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod, And the red pennons of the cardinal-flowers Hang motionless upon their upright staves. The sky is hot and hazy, and the wind, Wing-weary with its long flight from the south, Unfelt ; yet, closely scanned, yon maple leaf With faintest motion, as one stirs in dreams, Confesses it. The locust by the wall...
Page 113 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 227 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 141 - That made the wild-swan pause in her cloud, And the lark drop down at his feet. The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee, The snake slipt under a spray, The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak, And stared, with his foot on the prey, And the nightingale thought, ' I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay, For he sings of what the world will be When the years have died away.
Page 141 - And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.
Page 129 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around ; "When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground ? There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; The ground-squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.