The Book of the Months: And Circle of the SeasonsD. Bogue, 1844 - 214 pages |
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... head ; and , ere the languid Sun , Faint from the west , emits his evening ray , Earth's universal face , deep hid , and chill , Is one wild dazzling waste , that buries wide The works of man . THOMSON . Cowper finely completes this ...
... head ; and , ere the languid Sun , Faint from the west , emits his evening ray , Earth's universal face , deep hid , and chill , Is one wild dazzling waste , that buries wide The works of man . THOMSON . Cowper finely completes this ...
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... heads and unfed sides Your loop'd and window'd raggedness defend you From seasons such as these ! KING LEAR . The wild quadrupeds , also , are driven from their accustomed haunts . Hares enter the gar- dens to browse on the cultivated ...
... heads and unfed sides Your loop'd and window'd raggedness defend you From seasons such as these ! KING LEAR . The wild quadrupeds , also , are driven from their accustomed haunts . Hares enter the gar- dens to browse on the cultivated ...
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... heads , turn'd from the storm , the flocks Onward still urged by man and dog , escape The smothering drift ; while , skulking at a side , Is seen the fox , with close down - folded tail , Watching his time to seize a straggling prey ...
... heads , turn'd from the storm , the flocks Onward still urged by man and dog , escape The smothering drift ; while , skulking at a side , Is seen the fox , with close down - folded tail , Watching his time to seize a straggling prey ...
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... head . For faith , and hope , and peace , and trust , Are with their happier lot ; Though broken is their bond of love , At least we broke it not . 66 Thus thinking of the meeting years , The coming 20 BOOK OF THE MONTHS .
... head . For faith , and hope , and peace , and trust , Are with their happier lot ; Though broken is their bond of love , At least we broke it not . 66 Thus thinking of the meeting years , The coming 20 BOOK OF THE MONTHS .
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... head- quarters , and forms a seperate habitation for her young , taking care that both shall be on a higher level than the runs , and , as nearly as possible , even with the ground , and any moisture that may pene- trate is carried off ...
... head- quarters , and forms a seperate habitation for her young , taking care that both shall be on a higher level than the runs , and , as nearly as possible , even with the ground , and any moisture that may pene- trate is carried off ...
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Autumn beauty bees begin beneath BERNARD BARTON berries birds blast blossoms blue boughs bound in cloth breath breeze bright buds catkins chaffinches charms cheerful clouds cold Coloured Plates corn Corn Law COTTAGERS OF GLENBURNIE daisy delight DRAWING BOOK earth Edition Engravings farmer feeling fieldfares fields Fleet Street flocks flowers forest fresh frost fruit George Cruikshank grass green groves hath heaven hedges hills hues Illustrations insects labour leaf leaves Leigh Hunt lichens month morning morocco morocco elegant Nature neatly bound night o'er Originally published pilewort pleasant poet POETICAL primrose Robin Hood round rural Sacred Harp scene season shade Shakspeare shines showers sing smiles snow soft song Spring storm Summer sunny swallow sweet tender thee THOMAS DALE THOMAS HOOD THOMSON thou thrush Tilt and Bogue trees violet vols volume warm weather wild winds Winter winter aconite wither'd woods yellow young
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Page 196 - See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength. Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene. Ah ! whither now are fled Those dreams of greatness? those unsolid hopes Of happiness ? those longings after fame ? Those restless cares ' those busy bustling days ? Those gay-spent, festive nights :
Page 161 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 143 - 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...
Page 142 - Close bosom-friend of the maturing Sun ! Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run ; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core...
Page 9 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 201 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year: And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that lives.
Page 197 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...
Page 196 - Tis done! dread Winter spreads his latest glooms, And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year. How dead the vegetable kingdom lies! How dumb the tuneful! horror wide extends .His desolate domain. Behold, fond man ! See here thy pictured life; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Page 7 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 52 - THE stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies , I hear the rushing of the blast, That through the snowy valley flies Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild stormy month! in praise of thee : Yet, though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.