The Batsford Book of Country VerseSamuel Carr |
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Page 44
... lost and dear ; If heart and spirit will find out their Spring , Or if the world alone will bud and sing : Sing , hope , to me ; Sweet notes , my hope , soft notes for memory . The sap will surely quicken soon or late , The tardiest ...
... lost and dear ; If heart and spirit will find out their Spring , Or if the world alone will bud and sing : Sing , hope , to me ; Sweet notes , my hope , soft notes for memory . The sap will surely quicken soon or late , The tardiest ...
Page 79
... lost in a waking dream , We , listless , on the busy insects pore , In rapid dance uncertain , darting o'er The smooth - spread surface of the tepid stream ; The air is slothful , and will scarce convey Soft sounds of idle waters to the ...
... lost in a waking dream , We , listless , on the busy insects pore , In rapid dance uncertain , darting o'er The smooth - spread surface of the tepid stream ; The air is slothful , and will scarce convey Soft sounds of idle waters to the ...
Page 114
... lost inhabitants from home The fields now claim them where a motley crew Of old and young their daily tasks pursue The barleys beard is grey and wheat is brown And wakens toil betimes to leave the town The reapers leave their beds ...
... lost inhabitants from home The fields now claim them where a motley crew Of old and young their daily tasks pursue The barleys beard is grey and wheat is brown And wakens toil betimes to leave the town The reapers leave their beds ...
Common terms and phrases
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