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Samuel Carr. Summer Winter is cold - hearted , Spring is yea and nay , Autumn is a weathercock Blown every way . Summer days for me When every leaf is on its tree ; When Robin's not a beggar , And Jenny Wren's a bride , And larks hang ...
Samuel Carr. Summer Winter is cold - hearted , Spring is yea and nay , Autumn is a weathercock Blown every way . Summer days for me When every leaf is on its tree ; When Robin's not a beggar , And Jenny Wren's a bride , And larks hang ...
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Samuel Carr. The end of Summer from : Summer's Last Will and Testament Fayre Summer droops , droope men and beasts therefore : So fayre a summer looke for never more . All good things vanish lesse then in a day , Peace , plenty ...
Samuel Carr. The end of Summer from : Summer's Last Will and Testament Fayre Summer droops , droope men and beasts therefore : So fayre a summer looke for never more . All good things vanish lesse then in a day , Peace , plenty ...
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... summer past , And makes a little summer where it grows ; In the chill sunbeam of the faint brief day The dusky waters shudder as they shine , The russet leaves obstruct the straggling way Of oozy brooks , which no deep banks define ...
... summer past , And makes a little summer where it grows ; In the chill sunbeam of the faint brief day The dusky waters shudder as they shine , The russet leaves obstruct the straggling way Of oozy brooks , which no deep banks define ...
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Albert Museum Autumn barley beauty beech birds bloom blossoms blue boughs breath breeze bright brown chill clouds corn cowslips Crown Copyright dark doth dream drops earth Faber Ltd fair field flood Flow gently flowers FRANCES CORNFORD frost gleam grass green grey grove harvest hath hill IVOR GURNEY JOHN BETJEMAN JOHN CLARE John Crome John Linnell land landscape lark leaf leaves light meadow morn mountain nest night o'er painting pale permission of Faber poems rain Reprinted by permission RICHARD WATSON DIXON river ROBERT rooks rose round Samuel Palmer scene season shade shadow shining silent sing sleep snow song Spring stream Summer Sussex swallow Tate Gallery thee THOMAS thou tree Upper Lambourn vale Victoria and Albert village W. H. DAVIES W. R. Rodgers warm watercolour waves wild William Weston William Weston Gallery WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings winter wood yellow yonder