The Batsford Book of Country VerseSamuel Carr |
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Page 92
... never - failing bond ) Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain : Yet might'st thou seem , proud privilege ! to sing All independent of the leafy spring . Leave to the Nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine ...
... never - failing bond ) Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain : Yet might'st thou seem , proud privilege ! to sing All independent of the leafy spring . Leave to the Nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine ...
Page 109
... never greeted . Surely , from fairest spots of favoured lands , Were not some gifts withheld by jealous hands , This hour of deepening darkness here would be As a fresh morning for new harmony ; And lays as prompt would hail the dawn of ...
... never greeted . Surely , from fairest spots of favoured lands , Were not some gifts withheld by jealous hands , This hour of deepening darkness here would be As a fresh morning for new harmony ; And lays as prompt would hail the dawn of ...
Page 127
... never a stick , but three Dropped the tree along the line he measured , Lopped and topped the branches and ripped the bark off , Till the wet trunk lay bare as a skinned rabbit . He Drew out the pith and marrow of the log And planed it ...
... never a stick , but three Dropped the tree along the line he measured , Lopped and topped the branches and ripped the bark off , Till the wet trunk lay bare as a skinned rabbit . He Drew out the pith and marrow of the log And planed it ...
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