Poetry of the Woods: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of Forest Scenes, EtcE. H. Butler & Company, 1870 - 128 páginas |
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Arethuse AUTUMN beauteous beauty bend beneath birds blast bloom blue boughs bower branches breath breeze bright brow buds canker-worm charms clouds crown dark deep delight distant voices dreams dwell earth echo eglantine fair fairy fall fawn flower forest gentle glade grass green Grongar Grongar Hill grove hallowed ground hast hath haunts head hear heard heart heaven hill hues leaves light lispings lonely look meads melancholy melody mossy mountain murmur Muse Nature's night nightingale Nymph o'er pass Philomel pine Provençal rill Ring-dove rocks roof rose round scene shade shining day side sight silent sing skies soft solemn song sorrow soul sound sound of music spray spread spring stood stream summer sweet swell thee thine thou thrush towers tread trees trembling trunks twilight vale voice wandering waves wild wind wings wood Wood Rose woodland yellow youth
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Página 55 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 56 - Father, Thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns. Thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose All these fair ranks of trees. They in Thy sun Budded, and shook their green leaves in Thy breeze, And shot towards heaven. The centuryliving crow, Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died Among their branches, till at last they stood, As now they stand, massy and tall and dark, Fit shrine for humble worshipper to hold Communion with his Maker.
Página 49 - Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day.
Página 58 - My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me, — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Página 34 - Most musical, most melancholy" bird !* A melancholy bird ! Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...
Página 59 - God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark whirlwind that uproots...
Página 114 - There, interspersed in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend: There, wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. Even the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert, fruitful fields arise, That crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles the sable waste adorn.
Página 73 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Página 95 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 72 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.