The Annals of My Village: Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year |
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... branch thy sceptre , and thy throne A sliding car , indebted to no wheels , But urg'd by storms along its slippery way ; - I love thee , all unlovely as thou seemst , And dreaded as thou art ! " . TASK . B nature , even under the ...
... branch thy sceptre , and thy throne A sliding car , indebted to no wheels , But urg'd by storms along its slippery way ; - I love thee , all unlovely as thou seemst , And dreaded as thou art ! " . TASK . B nature , even under the ...
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... branches of the oak , the elm , and birch , had intercepted the flakes of snow , and formed a sparkling arcade . Every twig glittered with hoar - frost ; even the coarser herbage , ferns , reeds , and mosses , seemed as if fledged with ...
... branches of the oak , the elm , and birch , had intercepted the flakes of snow , and formed a sparkling arcade . Every twig glittered with hoar - frost ; even the coarser herbage , ferns , reeds , and mosses , seemed as if fledged with ...
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... branches of a silver fir , then flitted from spray to spray , and shook a shower of tinkling ice - drops on the withered leaves . Robin , too , who loves mankind , alive or dead , was ready with his song , and the cheerful voice of the ...
... branches of a silver fir , then flitted from spray to spray , and shook a shower of tinkling ice - drops on the withered leaves . Robin , too , who loves mankind , alive or dead , was ready with his song , and the cheerful voice of the ...
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... branches of the pine , fixes it to the stem by means of the resinous exudations of the tree , and plasters it on the outside with the same substance , to ex- clude the snow and rain . The bill is singularly constructed : it is hooked ...
... branches of the pine , fixes it to the stem by means of the resinous exudations of the tree , and plasters it on the outside with the same substance , to ex- clude the snow and rain . The bill is singularly constructed : it is hooked ...
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... branches , the hoary appearance of the forest . All this is obvious . But , Reader , " hast thou en- tered into the treasures of the snow , or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail ? * Hast thou con- sidered who it is , that saith ...
... branches , the hoary appearance of the forest . All this is obvious . But , Reader , " hast thou en- tered into the treasures of the snow , or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail ? * Hast thou con- sidered who it is , that saith ...
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Page 189 - Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide ; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight ; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow...
Page 1 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Page 240 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 42 - Give ye ear, and hear my voice ; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Page 115 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Page 258 - TwAs a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening and the folding flowers, That laugh to the summer's day.
Page 330 - Through the still night, incessant, heavy, strong, And seizes Nature fast. It freezes on; Till morn, late rising o'er the drooping world, Lifts her pale eye unjoyous.
Page 189 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.
Page 189 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Page 161 - O God, O good beyond compare, If thus thy meaner works are fair, If thus thy bounties gild the span Of ruined earth and sinful man, How glorious must the mansion be Where thy redeemed shall dwell with Thee.