 Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river...  The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks - Page 226by Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1915 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers ; And sometime like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head...wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies : And full-grown lambs loud bleat from... | |
 | George Milner - Gardening - 1881 - 370 pages
...song of the robin is included as among the salient features of the season. The last stanza is : — Where are the songs of Spring ? Ay, where are they...wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies ; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from... | |
 | sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 pages
...a brook ; Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. m. Where are the songs of Spring ? Ay, where are they...wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies ; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watehest the last oozings, hours by hours. turning, 486 e river-sallows, borne aloft Or sinking, ая the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...sometimes, like a gleaner, thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook ; Or by a cider press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings...barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue ; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn, Among the river sallows,... | |
 | John Keats - 1882 - 440 pages
...the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers; And sometime like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head...wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...; Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours. Where arc the songs of Spring ? Ay, where are they ? Think not..."wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies ; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...with patient look, Thou watehest the last oozings, hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring f Ay, where are they! Think not of them — thou hast...wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking, as the light wind lives or dies ; And full-grown lambs loud bleat... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...laden head across a brook ; Or, by a cider-press with patient look, Thou watchest the last ooziugs, hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,...hast thy music too,— While barred clouds bloom the soft dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 402 pages
...sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies,...wailful choir the' small gnats mourn Among the river sal.k'vs,' aorne a'oft Or sinking as thi light %"ind lives ot.d-es ; And full-grown Jambs loud bleat... | |
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