The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and Months of the Year, Their Changes, Employments, Lessons, and Pleasures |
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... nature for images of beauty which shall cultivate and perfect the taste . Nowhere , how- ever , does man less need the appliances of the pictorial and statuary arts than in our own wide country , where nature lavishes so much of beauty ...
... nature for images of beauty which shall cultivate and perfect the taste . Nowhere , how- ever , does man less need the appliances of the pictorial and statuary arts than in our own wide country , where nature lavishes so much of beauty ...
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... Nature , and his lusty steers Drives from their stalls , to where the well - used plough Lies in the furrow , loosened from the frost . There , unrefusing , to the harnessed yoke They lend their shoulder , and begin their toil , Cheered ...
... Nature , and his lusty steers Drives from their stalls , to where the well - used plough Lies in the furrow , loosened from the frost . There , unrefusing , to the harnessed yoke They lend their shoulder , and begin their toil , Cheered ...
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... Nature . THE CALM BEFORE A SHOWER . GLAD EXPECTATION OF ALL NATURE . Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods , Or rustling turn the many - twinkling leaves Of aspen ...
... Nature . THE CALM BEFORE A SHOWER . GLAD EXPECTATION OF ALL NATURE . Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods , Or rustling turn the many - twinkling leaves Of aspen ...
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... NATURE IN THE GOLDEN AGE ; MUSIC . Harmonious Nature , too , looked smiling on : Clear shone the skies , cooled with eternal gales , And balmy spirit all . The youthful sun Shot his best rays , and still the gracious clouds Dropped ...
... NATURE IN THE GOLDEN AGE ; MUSIC . Harmonious Nature , too , looked smiling on : Clear shone the skies , cooled with eternal gales , And balmy spirit all . The youthful sun Shot his best rays , and still the gracious clouds Dropped ...
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... Nature , and her endless bloom . ASCRIPTION OF PRAISE TO THE AUTHOR OF NATURE . — THE VEGETABLE WORLD . SAP . Hail , Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth ! Essential Presence , hail ! To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my ...
... Nature , and her endless bloom . ASCRIPTION OF PRAISE TO THE AUTHOR OF NATURE . — THE VEGETABLE WORLD . SAP . Hail , Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth ! Essential Presence , hail ! To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my ...
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arms beauty behold beneath birds bless blest bloom bosom boughs breast breath brow busk Ceres charms cheerful chyle clouds courser deep delight dread Dryads e'en earth ECLOGUE ELSPA fair fear fields flame flocks flood flowers forest frae fruits Gaul Georgic give glebe grace green Grongar Hill groves hand happy head hear heart heaven hills labor land lawn light live maun mind morn mountains muse Naiad Nature Nature's night numbers nymphs o'er pain peace plain plant pleasure plough praise pride race rage rapture rich rills rise rocks round rural scene shade sheep shepherd shine shrubs sigh Silurian sing skies smile soft soil song soon soul spread spring strains stream swain sweet swell taste tempest Theana thee thine thou toil trees trembling vale Virgil wandering wave wild wind wings Winter woods yield youth
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Page 235 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 78 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 237 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 240 - 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 : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme ; He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Page 239 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ? Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek.
Page 37 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 365 - November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant...
Page 238 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear 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.
Page 237 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 464 - God ! sing ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice ! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!