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... boughs of an ancient oak . In speaking of sister and brother , we must not forget the affection which subsisted between Lord Macaulay and his sisters , an affection which threw a gleam of romance over an otherwise prosaic life . Of ...
... boughs of an ancient oak . In speaking of sister and brother , we must not forget the affection which subsisted between Lord Macaulay and his sisters , an affection which threw a gleam of romance over an otherwise prosaic life . Of ...
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... skies ! . . ' Gather thou each flower that grows , When the young heart overflows , To embalm that tent of snows . * * That is , old age , which the poet likens to a ' bough with snows en- cumbered . ' 74 A TRUE MAIDEN . ' Bear a lily in.
... skies ! . . ' Gather thou each flower that grows , When the young heart overflows , To embalm that tent of snows . * * That is , old age , which the poet likens to a ' bough with snows en- cumbered . ' 74 A TRUE MAIDEN . ' Bear a lily in.
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... boughs , the too formal symmetry of the front ; the broad gravel - walk winding on the right , by a row of tall pines , alongside the pool , but branching out on the left among swelling grassy mounds , sur- mounted by clumps of trees ...
... boughs , the too formal symmetry of the front ; the broad gravel - walk winding on the right , by a row of tall pines , alongside the pool , but branching out on the left among swelling grassy mounds , sur- mounted by clumps of trees ...
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... bough to bough , And sing above in every tree , Are not from fears or cares more free Than we who lie , or sit , or walk below , And should by right be singers too . 88 ANDREW MARVELL ON THE GARDEN . What prince's choir.
... bough to bough , And sing above in every tree , Are not from fears or cares more free Than we who lie , or sit , or walk below , And should by right be singers too . 88 ANDREW MARVELL ON THE GARDEN . What prince's choir.
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... boughs , and of the broad water - lilies that floated tremulously on its rippled surface ; and then the belts of the winding paths of lawn and moss that led along and across the garden , some of them open to the sun and breeze , others ...
... boughs , and of the broad water - lilies that floated tremulously on its rippled surface ; and then the belts of the winding paths of lawn and moss that led along and across the garden , some of them open to the sun and breeze , others ...
Términos y frases comunes
Autumn beauty beds Biography birds bloom blossoms blue boughs bright Bryan Waller Proctor Caroline Herschel character Charles Charles Kingsley Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë charm colour cultivate daffodil daisies daughter delight earth English Essays feel fiction flowers fragrance fresh fuchsias garden gathering gentle GIRL'S GARDEN Girls golden graceful grass green ground grow happy Harriet Martineau heart hedge History of England hyacinths Jean Ingelow John labour Lady leaves light lives Lord Lord Macaulay Madame maiden Mary mind Miss month nature nest never noble pink plants pleasant pleasure poems poet poetry pots primroses Queen reader Rose S. R. Gardiner Sara Coleridge says season Sepals shade Shakespeare sing sister soil song spring Stopford Brooke summer sweet Thomas Carlyle thought trees violet walk wild William wind winter women wood writer yellow young
Pasajes populares
Página 264 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 263 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 251 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel...
Página 216 - DAFFODILS FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Página 183 - I were to pray for a taste -which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 216 - FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 118 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Página 89 - All things to man's delightful use. The roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf ; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses and jessamine, Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic ; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature...
Página 101 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Página 227 - To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen.