A Berkeley Year: A Sheaf of Nature EssaysEva V. Carlin Women's auxiliary of the First Unitarian church, 1898 - 90 pages |
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Abundant in flocks April bay shore beautiful Berkeley Hills Berry Birds of Berkeley Black-headed Grosbeak bloom blossom Blue Dick Boswell's breast brown Bullock's Oriole Buttercup California cañon-sides Cliff Swallow color common resident Common summer resident common winter resident Creek dwelling EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Fairly common fields Finch flicker Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow Glimpse Golden Gate Golden-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Sparrow grass Green-backed Goldfinch HELEN HUNT JACKSON hillsides JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Kinglet land landscape Lazuli Bunting live oaks looked Love Meadow Lark Nature's Nesting nook numbers Occasional in flocks Oregon Junco Pileolated Warbler places plain quiet rain Red-breasted Red-breasted Nuthatch roadside rocks Ruby-crowned Kinglet Russet-backed Thrush Samuel's Song Sparrow shadow shrubs slopes spring Strawberry Cañon sun lies warm sweet Syne tarweed thickets Townsend's Sparrow Trees of Berkeley University grounds Walks About Berkeley warm on Berkeley Western Western Screech Owl wild-flowers wood Woodpecker wren tit Yellow
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Page 76 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge- — That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 70 - Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought? Whose household words are songs in many keys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! Whose habitations in the tree-tops even Are half-way houses on the road to heaven!
Page 82 - I could see my house, and on its clustering vines fell the angry red of the sun darting across the cool green fields. The last hour of light touches the birds as it touches us. When they sing in the morning, it is with the happiness of the earth; but as the shadows fall strangely about them, and the helplessness of the night comes on, their voices seem to be lifted up like the loftiest poetry of the human spirit, with sympathy for realities and mysteries past all understanding.
Page 67 - I want the same old and loved things, the same wildflowers, the same trees and soft ash-green; the turtle-doves, the blackbirds, the coloured yellowhammer sing, sing, singing so long as there is light to cast a shadow on the dial, for such is the measure of his song, and I want them in the same place.
Page 15 - ... maintained till a nationality shall be generated, of due intensity and due comprehension, a glory indeed millennial, a progress without end, a triumph of humanity hitherto unseen, were ours; and, therefore, he addressed himself to maintain that united government. Standing on the Rock of Plymouth, he bade distant generations hail, and saw them rising, "demanding life, impatient for the skies...
Page 69 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 68 - S little I can tell About the birds in books ; And yet I know them well, By their music and their looks: When May comes down the lane, Her airy lovers throng To welcome her with song, And follow in her train...
Page 86 - These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, A blue and gold mistake.