 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...what is so rare as a day in Jane, Then it ever com ^ perfect days ; Then heaven tries the earth it' it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays....or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glUten : Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And grayling... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...r. AND what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then heaven tries the earth, if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we loot, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might,... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...— " And what is to rare as a day In June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm...Every clod feels a stir of might. An Instinct within us that reaches and towers. And, grasping hlindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in gross and... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...and the poet revels in a description of the glories of the summer : — 1851.] SOME AMERICAN POETS. " Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Evory clod feels a etir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...— " And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, If ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if It be in tune, And over it softly her warm...we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Kvery clod feel;* a stir of might, An instinct within us that reaches and towers, And. gnuping blindly... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Launfal. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. The Changeling. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...comer. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm...see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well be seen An instinct within it that... | |
 | Robert Morris Copeland - Agriculture - 1860 - 878 pages
...comer. " And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly, her warm...feels a stir of might, An instinct within it, that readies and towers, And, grasping blindly ahove it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...LOWELL. Oh ! what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether wo listen, We hear Hie murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...comer. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm...see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life .may well be seen An instinct within it that... | |
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days, Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays... 
