| Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1891 - 416 pages
...do not shock us. We must also find space for the exquisite lines to " Indian Summer ": " These arc the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, T» take a backward look. " These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June.... | |
| Emily Dickinson - 1890 - 164 pages
...Than when the winter came, Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps esoteric time. XXVII. • INDIAN SUMMER. *T*HESE are the days when birds come back, •*•...very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, — A blue and gold mistake.... | |
| Emily Dickinson - 1890 - 168 pages
...Than when the winter came, Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps esoteric time. XXVII. INDIAN SUMMER. ', are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, — A blue and gold mistake.... | |
| Emily Dickinson - 1891 - 168 pages
...when the winter came, Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps esoteric time. XXVII. INDIAN SUMMER. ' I ''HESE are the days when birds come back, •^ A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, — A blue and gold mistake.... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1897 - 360 pages
...I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity. E. DICKINSON. INDIAN SUMMER. 3n&um Rummer. 'T*HESE are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, — A blue and gold mistake.... | |
| Eva V. Carlin - Berkeley (Calif.) - 1898 - 116 pages
...shore. Maryland Yellowthroat. Common in marshes. Streaked horned Lark. In open fields near the bay. These are the days when birds come back, A very few,...or two, To take a backward look. EMILY DICKINSON. A host of poppies, a flight of swallows ; A flurry of rain, and a wind that follows Shepherds the leaves... | |
| Clara Bancroft Beatley - English poetry - 1903 - 224 pages
...Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. INDIAN SUMMER These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. [59] These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, — A blue and gold mistake.... | |
| Clara Bancroft Beatley - English poetry - 1903 - 244 pages
...Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. INDIAN SUMMER These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, — A blue and gold mistake.... | |
| Education - 1904 - 554 pages
...And wraps the fields in atmosphere of dreams! — Zitella Cocke in Youth's Companion Indian Summer These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June— A blue and gold mistake. O... | |
| John Raymond Howard - American poetry - 1905 - 350 pages
...Nor visited in heaven ; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given. 89' Indian Summer THESE are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. Oh, fraud that cannot cheat the bee, Almost thy plausibility Induces my belief, Till ranks of seeds... | |
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