 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
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...For gladness, and the light Where birds of summer sing. RICHABD ПЕХВТ DANA. £l]c Sana-piper. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper...down the beach we flit — One little sand-piper and 1. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts, in misty... | |
 | 1891 - 438 pages
...singing slow and soft and low, He murmured, " After many days." Celia Ubajter. 1836. THE SANDPIPER. Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...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... | |
 | Walter Learned - American poetry - 1891 - 404 pages
...long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...driftwood, bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their heads for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit — One little... | |
 | Education - 1891 - 416 pages
...BY KATE I. BROWN. CELIA. ТНАХГКК.« Тнк SANDPIPKR. * CROSS the lonely beach те flit, I One little sandpiper and I ; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The «oat tere«! drift wood, bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their banda for it, The wild wind... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...bringing his unfortunate foot against the quills of the porcupine. THE SANDPIPER.1 Across the narrow bevch we flit, One little sandpiper and I ; And fast I gather,...scattered driftwood bleached and dry. The wild waves reach tholr hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, Aa up and down the beach we flit, —... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - Readers - 1893 - 248 pages
...SANDPIPER AND I. Articulation. — scattered | driftwood ; bleached | and | dry. Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast...down the beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and mournful cry ; He starts not at my fitful song,... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1895 - 268 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 onr heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1895 - 268 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... | |
 | Education - 1910 - 916 pages
...Appledore, in sight and sound of the sea she loved so well. 168 AMERICAN PRIMARY TEACHEP 169 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1894 - 588 pages
...of Shoals," "The Watch of Boon Island," "The Sandpiper " and " The Song Sparrow." IAK THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...down 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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