 And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a...  Primary Education - Page 1851896Full view - About this book
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...Flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound. 2495 William Cullen Bryant: June. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then,...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. 2496 James Russell Lowell : Vision of Sir Launfal. Twas an evening of beauty; the air was perfume,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...sultry Hours, And ever-fanning breezes, on his way. (Thornton. LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. 827 And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. (Lowell. O summer day beside the joyous sea! 0 summer day BO wonderful and white, So full of gladness... | |
 | Margaret Wolfe Hungerford - 1883 - 292 pages
...down below are nodding to the evening breeze ; it is the happiest time of all the year, for " What is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays." " Well, the mother is dead and gone now this many a year," says Sir Mark, " and the old fellow went... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 pages
...ever-fanning breeies, on his way. ( Thomson. LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. 827 And what is 60 rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. ( 1. 1 m:1!. 0 summer day beside the joyous sea ! 0 summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pages
...'Tie only God may be had for the asking. The Vision of Sir LaunfaL And what is so rare as a day iu June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then heaven...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. The Vision of Sir Launfal. Be noble ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never... | |
 | Duchess - 1883 - 324 pages
...nodding to the evening breeze ; it is the happiest time of all the year, for " What is so rare as a dny in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then...if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear Inys." " Well, the mother is dead and gone now, this many a year," says Sir Mark, "and the old fellow... | |
 | R. W. C. Farnsworth - 1883 - 144 pages
...Mediterranean) that no clime has fewer. If Lowell had lived in this valley he never would have written : " And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days ;" for scores of perfect days come at all seasons of the year, — days which fulfill one's utmost... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...heaven alone that is given awav, 'T is only God may be had for the asking. The Vision of Sir Lnunfui. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect da3"8 ; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. Jtid. This... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...with the main object or event, and affected by it, but not absolutely forming a part of it.—WHATELY. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heiivc-n tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. Whether we louk, or... | |
 | 1891 - 400 pages
...passionate warmth of a lovtr." Surely no "poet of Nature" ever wrote more poetry in iwo lines than, "And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days." But how like a true lover is this in the mouth of Hosea Biglow : "Nor th' airth don't git put out with... | |
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