Turns the sod to violets, Thou, in sunny solitudes, Rover of the underwoods, The green silence dost displace With thy mellow, breezy bass. Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy drowsy tone Tells of countless sunny hours, Long days, and solid banks... Poems - Page 40by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...sunny solitudes, Rover of the underwoods, The green silence dost displace 30 With thy mellow, breezy bass. Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy...sunny hours, Long days, and solid banks of flowers; 35 Of gulfs of sweetness without bound In Indian wildernesses found; Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...in sunny solitudes, Rover of the underwoods, The green silence dost displace With thy mellow, breezy bass. Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy...seen ; But violets and bilberry bells, Maple-sap, and daffodils, Grass with green flag half-mast high, Succory to match the sky, Columbine with horn of honey,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...displace With thy mellow breezy bass. Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy drowsy tune, Telling of countless sunny hours, Long days, and solid banks...leisure. Firmest cheer, and bird-like pleasure. Aught unsavoury or unclean Hath my insect never seen. But violets, and bilberry bells, Maple sap, and daffodels,... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...underwoods, Thou in sunny solitudes, The green silence dost displace With thy mellow breezy bass. * * * Aught unsavory or unclean Hath my insect never seen, But violets, and bilberry bells, Maple sap, and daffodels, Clover, catchfly, adders-tongue, And brier-roses dwelt among. All beside... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 538 pages
...thy drowsy tune, Telling of countless sunny hours, Lon? days, and solid banks of flowers, Of ^ulfs of sweetness without bound In Indian wildernesses...immortal leisure. Firmest cheer, and bird-like pleasure. Anght unsavoury or unclean Hath my insect never seen, But violets, and bilberry bells, Maple sap, and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...displace, With thy mellow breezy bass. Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy drowsy tune, Telling of countless sunny hours, Long days, and solid banks...leisure, Firmest cheer and bird-like pleasure. Aught unsavoury or unclean, Hath my insect never seen, But violets and bilberry bells, Maple sap and daffodels,... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...in sunny solitudes, Rover of the underwoods, The green silence dost displace With thy mellow, breezy bass. Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy...Syrian peace, immortal leisure, Firmest cheer, and bid-like pleasure. " Aught unsavory, or unclean, Hath my insect never seen : But violets, and bilberry... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...in sunny solitudes, Rover of the underwoods, The green silence dost displace With thy mellow, breezy bass. Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy...Syrian peace, immortal leisure, Firmest cheer, and bid-like pleasure. tt Aught unsavory, or unclean, Hath my insect never seen : But violets, and bilberry... | |
| John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1054 pages
...variety of tones make up their melody. — There is the " drowsy tune" of the brooding bee, " Telling of countless sunny hours, Long days, and solid banks...immortal leisure, Firmest cheer, and birdlike pleasure." And there is the grasshopper, "Whose voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead," with... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy drowsy tune, Telling of countless gunny hours, Lou.; days, and solid banks of flowers, Of gulfs of sweetness...leisure. Firmest cheer, and bird-like pleasure. Aught unsavoury or unclean Hath my insect never seen, But violets, and bilberry bells, Maple sap, and daffodels,... | |
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