 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...guess, Was — " Shelterless, shelterless, shelterless !" XGV.— SUMMER. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 1. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...in tune, • And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...Was — " Shelterless, shelterless, shelterless !" XCV.— SUMMER. .1 .Y 11 is I >r*iKi.i. LOWELL. 1. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...be had for the asking, No price is set on the lavish summer ; June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever,...it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or sec it glisten ; Every clod feels... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...rather rapid than medium, force moderate, expression animated and almost jubilant. I. OH ! what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...perhaps, but for the soul Which struggled through and chasten'd down the whole. JUira. Byron, DJ i. 60. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if t be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. JUBIES, JUBYMEN. Lowell, Vltion of Sir Launfal.... | |
 | 1867 - 616 pages
...what Is so sweet as a day In Jnnc ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth IT It be In tune, And over It softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We heir life murmur, or see It glisten. Every clod feels a stir... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - Great Britain - 1869 - 352 pages
...for the asking, There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pages
...for the asking, There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. The Music-Grinileirs. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. AND what is so rare as a day in June ? -^*- Then,...earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm car lays. The Vision of Sir Lamifal. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1869 - 524 pages
...contains that happy form of words which has gone into the current commonplace of poetical quotation, — And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days. Mr. Lowell's quality is not such as to have enriched the commonplace books with many passages of similar... | |
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels... 
