 Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I ; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit,...  Scribners Monthly - Page 3651872Full view - About this book
 | Celia Thaxter - 1877 - 202 pages
...They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds •Scud black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Authors, American - 1877 - 334 pages
...rock, the sprite of an enchanted island. The picture is before us in this song: — THE SANDPIPER. " Across the narrow beach we flit, One little Sandpiper...the beach we flit — One little Sandpiper and I. " Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts, in misty... | |
 | John Burroughs - American literature - 1877 - 276 pages
...the dweller upon the coast THE SANDPIPER. Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper ami I ; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood...raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we Jlit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1879 - 270 pages
...rivals? Is it right to envy any person? XLIX. THE SANDPIPER. BY CELIA THAXTER. 1. ACROSS the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast...down the beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I. 2. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud, black and swift, across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...and rivers fair, — Nature is always wis in every part. EDWARD HOVEL, LORD THURLOW. THE SANDPIPER. the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Hit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...quit with me the shore For gladness, and the light Where birds of summer sing. RICHARD HENHY DANA. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper...the beach we flit — One little sand-piper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts, in misty... | |
 | Celia Thaxter - 1883 - 200 pages
...They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - American poetry - 1883 - 662 pages
...give me, give me, thine. FEOM THE NEAPOLtTAN (iTALtAN DtALECT). NOETH AMEEtCAN REYtEW. THE SANDPlPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
 | Education - 1883 - 270 pages
...perished, Wrecked by the idle thief who stole thy breath ! From "My Aviary," by OW HOLMES. THE SANDPIPEK. Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 pages
...Thaxter's poem is as much for the dweller inland as the dweller upon the coast. " THE SANDPIPER. " Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
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