The SeasonsC. Wells, 1841 - 168 páginas |
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... Winds the whole work , and sidelong lays the glebe . While thro ' the neighboring fields the sower stalks , With measured step ; and liberal throws the grain 45 Into the faithful bosom of the ground : The harrow follows harsh , and ...
... Winds the whole work , and sidelong lays the glebe . While thro ' the neighboring fields the sower stalks , With measured step ; and liberal throws the grain 45 Into the faithful bosom of the ground : The harrow follows harsh , and ...
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... winds Blow not in vain . Far hence they keep repress'd Those deepening clouds on clouds , surcharg'd with rain , That o'er the vast Atlantic hither borne , In endless train , would quench the summer blaze , 10 SPRING .
... winds Blow not in vain . Far hence they keep repress'd Those deepening clouds on clouds , surcharg'd with rain , That o'er the vast Atlantic hither borne , In endless train , would quench the summer blaze , 10 SPRING .
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... winds , 230 Innumerous mixed them with the nursing mould , The moistening current , and prolific rain . But who their virtues can declare ? who pierce , Withi vision pure , into these secret stores Of health , and life , and joy ? the ...
... winds , 230 Innumerous mixed them with the nursing mould , The moistening current , and prolific rain . But who their virtues can declare ? who pierce , Withi vision pure , into these secret stores Of health , and life , and joy ? the ...
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... winds and waters flowed In consonance . Such were those prime of days . 270 But now those white , unblemished manners , whence The fabling poets took their golden age , Are found no more amid these iron times , These drėgs of life ! now ...
... winds and waters flowed In consonance . Such were those prime of days . 270 But now those white , unblemished manners , whence The fabling poets took their golden age , Are found no more amid these iron times , These drėgs of life ! now ...
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... winds ; that now , in fluent dance , And lively fermentation mounting , spreads All this innumerous - colored scene of things . As rising from the vegetable world My theme ascends , with equal wing ascend , 570 My panting Muse ; and ...
... winds ; that now , in fluent dance , And lively fermentation mounting , spreads All this innumerous - colored scene of things . As rising from the vegetable world My theme ascends , with equal wing ascend , 570 My panting Muse ; and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amid bank beam beauty beneath breast breath breeze bright called charm circling clouds comes dark death deep delight descends earth fair fall fancy fear feels fields fierce fire flame flocks flood force forest friends gives gloom grace grove hand happy head heart heaven Hence hills human kind land light lively look lost mind mingled mixed morn mountains Muse Nature night Note o'er once passions peace plain pours pride pure race rage raise retired rise rocks roll round rural rushing scarce scene season shade shake shining sits smiling snow soft song soul sounding spirit spreads Spring stand storm stream sweet swelling tempest tender thee thou thought thousand toil train turn vale various virtue voice walk wandering waste wave whole wide wild winds wing Winter woods youth
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Página 37 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 132 - As thus the snows arise ; and foul, and fierce, All Winter drives along the darken'd air; In his own loose-revolving fields, the swain Disaster'd stands; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain : Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray : Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home...
Página 131 - Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Página 153 - Tis done ! dread Winter spreads his latest glooms, And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year. How dead the vegetable kingdom lies ! How dumb the tuneful! Horror wide extends His desolate domain. Behold, fond man ! See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Página 155 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 133 - In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold; Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Página 78 - Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays!
Página 131 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 38 - And thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus, As ceaseless round a jarring world they roll, Still find them happy; and consenting SPRING Sheds her own rosy garland on their heads: Till evening comes at last, serene and mild; When after the long vernal day of life, Enamour'd more, as more remembrance swells With many a proof of recollected love, Together down they sink in social sleep ; Together freed, their gentle spirits fly To scenes where love and bliss immortal reign.
Página 97 - Swept from the black horizon, broad, descends In one continuous flood. Still over head The mingling tempest weaves its gloom, and still The deluge deepens; till the fields around Lie sunk, and flatted, in the sordid wave.