We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell, We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing. The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming... The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 107by James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...grass is growing. 8. The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming near, 70 That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing,...good news back, For other couriers we should not lack ; ?s LITERARY ANALYSIS. — 49-56. The . . . hcst! In stanza 6 point out a simile ; a striking epithet.... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1881 - 514 pages
...help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing ; The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted,...couriers we should not lack ; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing, — And hark ! how clear bold chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the year,... | |
| 1881 - 222 pages
...knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing; JUNE. \7 The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted,...couriers we should not lack ; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing, — And hark! how clear bold chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the year,... | |
| Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are THE POET AS A NARRATOR. } } } yon heifer's lowing,— And hark ! how clear bold chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the year,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...help knowing ling; That skies are clear and grass is growThe breeze comes whispering in our ear. That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted,...couriers we should not lack ; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing, — And hark ! how clear bold chanticleer. Warmed with the new wine of the year.... | |
| William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...knowing That the skies are clear and grass is growing. 8. The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted,...good news back, For other couriers we should not lack : LITERARY ANALYSIS. — 49-56. Th« . . . brst ! In stanza 6 point out a simile: a striking epithet.... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 pages
...and grass is growing. The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming near, 70 That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing,...good news back, For other couriers we should not lack ; 75 We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing ; And hark I how clear bold Chanticleer, Warmed with... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pages
...That skies are clear and grass is growing ; The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelious are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that...flowing, That the river is bluer than the sky, That the rohin is plastering Ius house hard by ; And if the breeze kept the good news hack, For other couriers... | |
| James Edward Murdoch - 1884 - 510 pages
...That skies are clear and grass is growing; The Iiree/e comes whispering in our ear, Thai tl::inielions are blossoming near. That maize has sprouted, that...couriers we should not lack; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing, — And hark! how clear bold chanticleer. Warmed with the new wine of the year,... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 pages
...»treams are flowing, That the river i« bluer than the sky. That the robin is plastering hin house, close by ; And if the breeze kept the good news back, For...other couriers we should not lack : We could guess it by yon heifer's lowing, — Aud hark ! how clear bold chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the... | |
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