 | Celia Thaxter - 1874 - 206 էջ
...breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death. •KH-E SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little...gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood bleached and d The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high. As up and down... | |
 | Edward Austin Sheldon - 1875 - 444 էջ
...mammal, and is called, at the West, a ground hog. SHELDON'S FIFTH READER. II. — THE SANDPIPER. A CROSS the narrow beach, we flit, — -*--*- One little sandpiper...hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, 2. Above our heads, the sullen clouds Scud, black and swift, across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in... | |
 | 1886 - 222 էջ
...make some coast alluring, some lone isle, To distant men, who must go there, or die." R. W, Emerson. THE SAND-PIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I, And fast 1 gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their hands for... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 էջ
...tortoise-shell 1 Oh, yes! ding-dong 1 the crier, the belli Isn' t this a pretty tale to tell? THE 8ATOPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast I gather, bit by bit, Ulltput Levee. The scattered driftwood bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their hands for it, The... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1892 - 626 էջ
...sandpiper. "To flit " means to go quickly because she was in a hurry to get home before the storm came on. " 'And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood bleached and dry.' " ' ' I should think they would be wet with the waves." "They were wet some time before, but the wind... | |
 | Walter Learned - 1891 - 404 էջ
...flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One...driftwood, bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their heads for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit — One little... | |
 | 1891 - 416 էջ
...BY KATE I. BROWN. CELIA. ТНАХГКК.« Тнк SANDPIPKR. * CROSS the lonely beach те flit, I One little sandpiper and I ; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The «oat tere«! drift wood, bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their banda for it, The wild wind... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 էջ
...bringing his unfortunate foot against the quills of the porcupine. THE SANDPIPER.1 Across the narrow bevch we flit, One little sandpiper and I ; And fast I gather,...scattered driftwood bleached and dry. The wild waves reach tholr hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, Aa up and down the beach we flit, —... | |
 | Walter Learned - 1897 - 338 էջ
...with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One...driftwood, bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their heads for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit — One little... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis - 1897 - 540 էջ
...SAND-PIPER. « By CELIA THAXTER, Poet. B. 1836, New Hampshire ; resides at Appledore, Isles of Shoals. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I, And fast I gather, bit by bit, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach... | |
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The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, — One little Sandpiper and I. 
