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... Early Purple Bullfinch 99 Fly Monkshood Spotted Moorhen Ostrich Plume Moss Moschatel Otter Moss , Ostrich Plume Owl , Fern Screw Tawny Moth , Clothes White Death's - head 99 Ox Gad Fly Gamma 99 Oyster 99 Garden Tiger Ghost 99 Paigle ...
... Early Purple Bullfinch 99 Fly Monkshood Spotted Moorhen Ostrich Plume Moss Moschatel Otter Moss , Ostrich Plume Owl , Fern Screw Tawny Moth , Clothes White Death's - head 99 Ox Gad Fly Gamma 99 Oyster 99 Garden Tiger Ghost 99 Paigle ...
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... early morning the merry chirp of the Sparrow commencing its cheerful chatter with the first beams of morning ; occasionally their noise is somewhat vociferous when holding a court over an offender . The crow usually punishes the ...
... early morning the merry chirp of the Sparrow commencing its cheerful chatter with the first beams of morning ; occasionally their noise is somewhat vociferous when holding a court over an offender . The crow usually punishes the ...
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... early morning . This tree then presented , in many situations , an object of the most striking beauty . The beauti- ful feathery foliage was lightly clothed with the finest snow— not matting together in a heavy clod of white , but just ...
... early morning . This tree then presented , in many situations , an object of the most striking beauty . The beauti- ful feathery foliage was lightly clothed with the finest snow— not matting together in a heavy clod of white , but just ...
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... early and beautiful blossom , where its white and purple fragrant flowers may be at this season readily met with ; the naked branches wreathed with rosy blossom , whilst the ground is whitened with snow , form a striking and beautiful ...
... early and beautiful blossom , where its white and purple fragrant flowers may be at this season readily met with ; the naked branches wreathed with rosy blossom , whilst the ground is whitened with snow , form a striking and beautiful ...
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... early spring , which form an admirable substitute for the apple and gooseberry in tarts and pies ; the cooling , pleasant acid of the stalks and leaves is very agreeable to the taste , and is undoubtedly beneficial to the health of most ...
... early spring , which form an admirable substitute for the apple and gooseberry in tarts and pies ; the cooling , pleasant acid of the stalks and leaves is very agreeable to the taste , and is undoubtedly beneficial to the health of most ...
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amid ancient animal Aphides appears APRIL autumn bark beauty bees Beetle berries bird bloom blossom blue branches bright brown buds Butterfly caterpillar catkins Chaffinch clear colour coloured blossom common Crowfoot Cuckoo Cuckoo Flower curious deep delicate drooping early earth eggs especially esteemed eyes favourable favourite fish foliage formerly fragrant frequently fresh fruit garden Garden Warbler golden graceful grass Gray Wagtail grub head hedge hedgebank hedgerows herb herbalists insect juice known larvæ leaf light meadows month morning Moth Nature nest numerous observed occasionally odour ornament peculiar petals plant pleasant Pliny plumage pupa purple rarely resemblance rich root Rose round says scurvy season seed seen shade soft song soon Spider spots spring stamens summer sunbeams sunny sweet tail tint TITMOUSE tree unfrequently usually vegetable Water-cress weather wild winds wings winter wood woodland yellow young
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Page 278 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 237 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 344 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 170 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 476 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 247 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 500 - The night was winter in his roughest mood ; The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Page 387 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 126 - Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now...
Page 288 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, — And maidens call it love-in-idleness.