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
| Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...to the toils of nature true, Wreath their capacious nests anew. HI. WARTON — Ode 10. Sand-Piper. 8 n. CELIA THAXTER — The Sand-Piper. Sea Bird. How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters... | |
| William Garrett Horder - American poetry - 1896 - 408 pages
...once more : Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet ! THE SANDPIPER A!ROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and...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... | |
| Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1896 - 302 pages
...beautiful in thought and expression. Mrs. Thaxter died in 1894. HG242E3THE SANDPIPER. Across- the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast...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... | |
| Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1896 - 300 pages
...are beautiful in thought and expression. Mrs. Thaxter died in 1894. THE SANDPIPER. Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast...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... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 608 pages
...water's rune. No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon. THE SANDPIPER A:ROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and...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... | |
| Marian M. George - Education - 1898 - 470 pages
...worth of property. Was he not a brave and noble boy to d» this? THE SAND-PIPER. Across the lonely beach we flit One little sand-piper and I, And fast...down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Send black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
| Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1897 - 230 pages
...beautiful bitterness wonderful welcomed obeyed kingdom prince queen forest THE SANDPIPER. Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I ; And fast...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black a^id swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
| Boston Browning Society - 1897 - 518 pages
...as well as good poetiy. There is a common gravitation that holds plant, bird and man in one destiny. Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As np and down the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night... | |
| Walter Learned - American poetry - 1897 - 338 pages
...undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 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... | |
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