 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the whitewash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle...  Leaves of Grass - Page 246by Walt Whitman - 1883 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom, rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle : and from this bush in the door-yard, With delicate-coloured blossoms, and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig, with its flower, I break.... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom, rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle : and from this bush in the door-yard, With delicate-coloured blossoms, and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig, with its flower, I break.... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom, rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle : and from this bush in the door-yard, With delicate-coloured blossoms, and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig, with its flower, I break.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1886 - 352 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle — and from this bush in the...green, A sprig with its flower I break. In the swamp in seclud'd recesses Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1886 - 362 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle — and from this bush in the...green, A sprig with its flower I break. In the swamp in seclud'd recesses Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings... | |
 | Olive Thorne Miller - 1888 - 300 pages
...and after a few moments' waiting the brown thrush went on his way rejoicing. « 0 WONDROUS SINGERS." In the swamp in secluded recesses A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song. Sing on ! sing on, you gray-brown bird ! Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour Your chant from the... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1893 - 856 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle — and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate color'd blossoms and heartshaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break. A... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1895 - 466 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle — and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break."... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle — and from this bush in the...leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break. 4 In the swamp in secluded recesses, A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song, Solitary the thrush,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 602 pages
...leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle ; — and from this bush in the door-yard, With delicate-colored blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break. In... | |
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