The Batsford Book of Country VerseSamuel Carr |
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... wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den , Thou green - crested lapwing , thy screaming forbear , I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair . How lofty , sweet Afton , thy neighbouring hills , Far mark'd with the courses of clear ...
... wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den , Thou green - crested lapwing , thy screaming forbear , I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair . How lofty , sweet Afton , thy neighbouring hills , Far mark'd with the courses of clear ...
Page 49
... wild duck from the winter dawn ; Shady Kyle - dortha ; sunnier Kyle - na - no , Where many hundred squirrels are as happy As though they had been hidden by green boughs Where old age cannot find them ; Pairc - na - lee , Where hazel and ...
... wild duck from the winter dawn ; Shady Kyle - dortha ; sunnier Kyle - na - no , Where many hundred squirrels are as happy As though they had been hidden by green boughs Where old age cannot find them ; Pairc - na - lee , Where hazel and ...
Page 83
... wild streamlet pour Hurriedly through its ferny dells . Profoundly still the twilight air , Lifeless the landscape ; so we deem Till like a phantom gliding near A stag bends down to drink the stream . And far away a mountain zone , A ...
... wild streamlet pour Hurriedly through its ferny dells . Profoundly still the twilight air , Lifeless the landscape ; so we deem Till like a phantom gliding near A stag bends down to drink the stream . And far away a mountain zone , A ...
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