Brandywine Days: Or, The Shepherd's Hour-glassBiddle Press, 1910 - 218 էջ |
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amid ancient antique autumn Barnabe Googe beauty beneath beside birds blooms Brandywine brooding Cedarcroft Celia Thaxter Celtic Charles Lamb charm Chester County Corydon dear delightful dream drowsy Eclogues enchanted exquisite faery fair farm fields flowers fragrant garden gleam golden grass green happy harvest haunts hear heart Herrick Hesperides hills Humphry Marshall idyllic Keats land landscape LENOX TILDEN FOUNDATIONS Lionel Johnson lonely lyric Madison Cawein Marshallton meadows melody memory muse o'er old-time old-world orchard Oxford pastoral peace pensive phlox pipe poem poet PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR purple quaint quiet ring-dove river Robert Herrick roses shadows shepherd silent silver Silvia sing sleep slopes Slumber Slumberville soft softly song sonnets Spenser stream summer sweet thee Theocritus tranquil trees twilight UGUST vale verse Virgil Walter Pater wandering waters wheat wild willow winds woodland woods Wordsworth yellow YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY youth
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Էջ 90 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Էջ 34 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer...
Էջ 100 - A THANKSGIVING TO GOD FOR HIS HOUSE Lord, Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell, A little house, whose humble roof Is weather-proof, Under the spars of which I lie Both soft and dry; Where Thou, my chamber for to ward, Hast set a guard Of harmless thoughts, to watch and keep Me while I sleep. 10 Low is my porch, as is my fate, Both void of state; And yet the threshold of my door Is worn by th' poor, Who thither come and freely get Good words or meat.
Էջ 187 - Fair and fair and twice so fair, As fair as any may be: Thy love is fair for thee alone, And for no other lady.
Էջ 102 - I write of youth, of love, and have access By these, to sing of cleanly wantonness ; I sing of dews, of rains, and, piece by piece, Of balm, of oil, of spice, and ambergris ; I sing of times trans-shifting ; and I write How roses first came red, and lilies white...
Էջ 128 - Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear? Mistaken long, I sought you then In busy companies of men. Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow; Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude.
Էջ 5 - To one who has been long in city pent, "Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven,— to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye...
Էջ 141 - Bring hether the Pincke and purple Cullambine, With Gelliflowres ; Bring Coronations, and Sops in wine, Worne of Paramoures : Strowe me the ground with Daffadowndillies, And Cowslips, and Kingcups, and loved Lillies : The pretie Pawnee, And the Chevisaunce, Shall match with the fayre flowre Delice.
Էջ 14 - Sometimes an angler comes, and drops his hook Within its hidden depths, and 'gainst a tree Leaning his rod, reads in some pleasant book, Forgetting soon his pride of fishery; And dreams, or falls asleep, While curious fishes peep About his nibbled bait, or scornfully Dart off and rise and leap.
Էջ 99 - Hesperides ; or, The Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq.