The Batsford Book of Country VerseSamuel Carr |
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... Come , Spring ! She comes on waste and wood , On farm and field : but enter also here , Diffuse thyself at will thro ' all my blood , And , tho ' thy violet sicken into sere , Lodge with me all the year ! Once more a downy drift against ...
... Come , Spring ! She comes on waste and wood , On farm and field : but enter also here , Diffuse thyself at will thro ' all my blood , And , tho ' thy violet sicken into sere , Lodge with me all the year ! Once more a downy drift against ...
Page 145
... Come , months , come away , From November to May , In your saddest array ; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year , And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre . II The chill rain is falling , the nipt worm is crawling , The rivers are ...
... Come , months , come away , From November to May , In your saddest array ; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year , And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre . II The chill rain is falling , the nipt worm is crawling , The rivers are ...
Page 160
... comes , I find a patch of green , Where robins , by the miser winter made Domestic , flirt and perch upon the spade ; And in a little garden - close at home I watch for spring — and there's the crocus come ! JOHN CLARE ( 1793-1864 ) In ...
... comes , I find a patch of green , Where robins , by the miser winter made Domestic , flirt and perch upon the spade ; And in a little garden - close at home I watch for spring — and there's the crocus come ! JOHN CLARE ( 1793-1864 ) In ...
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