The Batsford Book of Country VerseSamuel Carr |
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Page 69
... wide , And anchored lilies ride , And the pendulum spider Swings from side to side . And blue - black beetles transact business , And gnats fly in a host , And furry caterpillars hasten That no time be lost , And moths grow fat and ...
... wide , And anchored lilies ride , And the pendulum spider Swings from side to side . And blue - black beetles transact business , And gnats fly in a host , And furry caterpillars hasten That no time be lost , And moths grow fat and ...
Page 179
... wide her elegant sweets , The deep dark green of whose unvarnish'd leaf Makes more conspicuous , and illumines more The bright profusion of her scatter'd stars.— These have been , and these shall be in their day ; And all this uniform ...
... wide her elegant sweets , The deep dark green of whose unvarnish'd leaf Makes more conspicuous , and illumines more The bright profusion of her scatter'd stars.— These have been , and these shall be in their day ; And all this uniform ...
Page 183
... wide world rings In mock of this belief , it brings Nor fear , nor grief , nor vain perplexity . So will I build my altar in the fields , And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be , And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields ...
... wide world rings In mock of this belief , it brings Nor fear , nor grief , nor vain perplexity . So will I build my altar in the fields , And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be , And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields ...
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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