 | Alan Bold, Allen Freer - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 264 pages
...the tunes from the chimneys, it was air 20 And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass. And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep...long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars 25 Flying with the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark. And then to awake, and the farm, like... | |
 | Jody Duncan - Drama - 1992 - 102 pages
...chimneys, it was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass. (HE begins to falter.) And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep...the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark. And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder;... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the lilting house and happy as the grass was green. The night above the dingle starry, (1. 1—3) 18 And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away, (1. 23-24) 19 it was all Shining, it was Adam and maiden, (1. 29—30) 20 And nothing I cared, at my... | |
 | Andrew Ortony - Philosophy - 1993 - 700 pages
...metonymies (Shen, 1987). (Recall the example from Dylan Thomas cited earlier, or this one from him: "All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables,...ricks, and the horses / Flashing into the dark.") To see whether people use different criteria for scientific and literary comparisons, we asked subjects... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...the tunes from the chimneys, it was air 20 And playing, lovely and waterv' And fire green as grass. And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep...the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark. And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder:... | |
 | College-level examinations - 2005 - 276 pages
...was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass. And nightly under the simple stars 25 As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm...the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark. 30 And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass. And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep...the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark. And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder:... | |
 | Michael Harrison - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 206 pages
...house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass. And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep...the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark. And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder:... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass. And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep...the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark. And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder:... | |
 | Phillip Sipiora, James S. Baumlin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 276 pages
...mercy of his means" (178). Now he realizes that his timeless sleep of innocence was only apparent: "And nightly under the simple stars / As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away." With the maturity of adulthood, the poet looks back on the kairos of what felt like an endless childhood... | |
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And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass. And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away... 
