The Farmer's BoyD. Appleton, 1869 - 68 páginas |
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art thou barley behold bend beneath bids Birket Foster blast bless blow boast bosom bough BREAD STREET bright brow chase cheer cheese climbs clods cloud cold Cooper dark Delight doom'd door dread e'en ewes fame field flies flock flow'rs flows G. E. Hicks gale gaze gazer Giles glow green groves harrows head heart Heaven hide hill labour LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS load loud mastiff mead Midst morn Nature's night nightly o'er pain pasture path peace pheasant playmates plenteous plough poor pow'r praise pride pursue rage rapture reeking reign rest rise roar round S. V. Slader shade shadows play shower side SKYLARK sloes smiles snow Sods song soul spreads Spring sting stream stroll strong Summer's sunbeams sweet tempests tender thee thine thou throng toil tow'ring treads TURNIP warm Weir Whence Whilst wing woes woods yields
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Página 5 - And strew'd with corn to crown the rising year; And o'er the whole Giles once transverse again, In earth's moist bosom buries up the grain. The work is done; no more to man is given; The grateful farmer trusts the rest to Heaven. Yet oft with anxious heart he looks around, And marks the first green blade that breaks the ground ; SPRING.
Página 9 - Reluctance marks their steps, sedate and slow ; The right of conquest all the law they know ; The strong press on, the weak by turns succeed...
Página 1 - No Alpine wonders thunder through my verse : The roaring cataract, the snow-topt hill, Inspiring awe till breath itself stands still. Nature's sublimer scenes ne'er...
Página 62 - Others, detach'd in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair ; Scatter'd immensely wide from east to west, The beauteous 'semblance of a Flock at rest.
Página 15 - Away they scour, impetuous, ardent, strong, The green turf trembling as they bound along ; Adown the slope, then up the hillock climb, Where every molehill is a bed of thyme ; There panting stop ; yet scarcely can refrain ; A bird, a leaf, will set them off again : Or, if a gale with strength unusual blow, Scattering the wild-briar roses into snow, Their little limbs increasing efforts try, Like the torn flower the fair assemblage fly.
Página 23 - When on some eminence he takes his stand, To judge the smiling produce of the land. Here Vanity slinks back, her head to hide : What is there here to flatter human pride? The towering fabric, or the dome's loud roar...
Página 15 - Or gazed in merry clusters by your side? Ye who can smile, to wisdom no disgrace, At the arch meaning of a kitten's face; If spotless innocence, and infant mirth, Excites to praise, or gives reflection birth; In shades like these pursue your favourite joy.
Página 33 - tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse ; ! Destroys life's intercourse ; the social plan That rank to rank cements, as man to man : Wealth flows around him, Fashion lordly reigns ; Yet poverty is his, and mental pains.
Página 15 - Spring's morning smiles, and soul-enlivening green, Say, did you give the thrilling transport way? Did your eye brighten, when young lambs at play Leap'd o'er your path with animated pride, Or grazed in merry clusters by your side...
Página 21 - ... flirts his filmy wings, and looks around, Exulting in his distance from the ground. The tender speckled moth here dancing seen, The vaulting grasshopper of glossy green, And all prolific Summer's sporting train, Their little lives by various pow'rs sustain.