Woodland IdylsNature Publishing Company, 1912 - 242 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
alighted bait bark bass beetle beneath berries bird blackberry blue blue-grass boulders breakfast brooklet bumble-bee butterflies camp Carolina wren catfish caught cells chiggers close crawfish creek doth earth energy feet fish flowers fox squirrel gaze goggle-eyes grass gray green green heron grows half head hole hook hornets inches insects katydid Knobstone leaf leaves limb living mammal maple marmot minnows minutes mold mole crickets morn mother nature nature's nest never night o'clock odor old pasture once pathway perhaps plant Pluvius poles pool rain red-eyed vireo rest rifle rove beetle seeking shelter side slender slope slowly soon soul spring squirrel star stems stew stream sunfish Synandra tent things thought to-day tree turtle twigs unto uttered valley wasp wild wings wood wood thrush woodland worm yards yellow-billed cuckoos
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 41 - Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.
Seite 40 - Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and Future Fears: To-morrow.'— Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Seite 41 - Yon rising Moon that looks for us again — How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same Garden — and for one in vain!
Seite 43 - And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom?
Seite 94 - Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men. Tax not my sloth that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought. There was never mystery But...
Seite 226 - ... once had leaves but a weak stem, and desiring to reach the light began to twine. Tasting juices by chance it was nourished by them and so began a downfall which has continued until it presents the degraded spectacle of a plant without a root, without a twig, without a leaf and with a stem so useless as to be inadequate to bear its own weight.
Seite 177 - The strawberry grows underneath the nettle; And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality...
Seite 61 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Seite 24 - The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God, and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims! The only sin that deserves a recompense of immortal agony ! Freely, were it to do again, would I incur the guilt. Unshrinkingly I accept the retribution!" "The man's head is turned," muttered the lime-burner to himself.
Seite 227 - In such green palaces the first kings reigned, Slept in their shades, and angels entertained ; With such old counsellors they did advise, And, by frequenting sacred groves, grew wise. Free from the impediments of light and noise, 75 » Man, thus retired, his nobler thoughts employs. Here Charles contrives the ordering of his states, Here he resolves his neighbouring princes...