The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence... Pepacton - Page 111by John Burroughs - 1881 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...ambush in the sky, With one great gush of blossom storms the world. A week ago the sparrow was divine; The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence, Was as a rhymer ere the poet come; But now, O rapture I sunshine winged and voiced, Pipe blown through... | |
| 1869 - 654 pages
...impropriety so manifest, immediately after, give us a description, in its kind scarcely to be surpassed ? " The bluebird', shifting his light load of song, From post to post, along the cheerless fence." These are admirable lines. It is difficult to conceive, " The warm, wild breath of the West, Shepherding... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 488 pages
...the sky, With one great gush of blossom storms the world. A week ago the sparrow wai divine ; 3/1* The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence, Was as a rhymer ere the poet come ; But now, O rapture ! sunshine winged and voiced, Pipe blown through... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...ambush in the sky, With one great gush of blossom storms the world. A week ago the sparrow was divine ; The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence, Was as a rhymer ere the poet come ; But now, O rapture ! sunshine winged and voiced, toes. UNDER THE... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...great gush of blossom storms the world. A week ago the sparrow was divine ; The bluebird, shitting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence, Was as a rhymer ere the poet come ; But now, O rapture ! sunshine winged and voiced, 330 UNDER THE... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...ambush in the sky, With one great gush of blossom storms the world. A week ago the sparrow was divine ; The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence, Was as a rhymer ere the poet come ; But now, 0 rapture ! sunshine winged and voiced, UNDER THE WILLOWS.... | |
| John Burroughs - 1877 - 278 pages
...as is its floral type to the eye a few weeks later. Lowell's two lines come nearer the mark : — " The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence." Or the first swallow that comes twittering up the southern valley, laughing a gleeful childish laugh,... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 pages
...in the sky, With one great gush of blossom storms the world. A week ago the sparrow was divine; I0 The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence, Was as a rhymer ere the poet come; But now, O rapture! sunshine winged and voiced, Pipe blown through... | |
| 1885 - 650 pages
...ambush in the sky, With one great gush of blossoms storms the world. A week ago the sparrow was divine ; The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence, Was as a rhymer ere the poet come ; But now, O rapture ! sunshine winged and voiced, Pipe blown through... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pages
...in the sky, With one great gush of blossom storms the world. A week ago the sparrow was divine ; 10 The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence, Was as a rhymer ere the poet come ; But now, O rapture! sunshine winged and voiced, Pipe blown through... | |
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