 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - 1890 - 380 pages
...wings, As tbe swallow dips and sings?" different interesting thawing boulders EACH AND ALL. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...sky : He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. MARINE (SEA) PEBBLES. Look at the picture above. Hark ! Can you not hear the noise and roar of the... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1890 - 110 pages
...neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one : Nothing is fair or good alone, II. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. III. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pe&rls to their enamel... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 pages
...thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not brmg home the river and sky;— He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1891 - 250 pages
...the melodies. The poet says : " All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." After the poet has tested those manifestations in nature and human experience which give the highest... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1891 - 334 pages
...melodies. The poet says : , " All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." After the poet has tested those manifestations in nature and human experience which give the highest... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1891 - 258 pages
...the melodies. The poet says : "All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." After the poet has tested those manifestations in nature and human experience which give the highest... | |
 | Mary Richardson - 1891 - 268 pages
...the melodies. The poet says : " All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...nest at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not ni.w, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." After... | |
 | 1896 - 710 pages
...heaven. Singing at dawn on an elder bough; I bro't him home In his nest at even,— He sings the soug but It pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and skyHe sang to my ear— they sang to my eye." This sentiment is very graphically illustrated also in... | |
 | Frederick Noël Paton - 1894 - 604 pages
...dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky." So an endeavour has been made to bring the "river and sky" into the book along with the birds; and... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1895 - 466 pages
...the exceptional excellences of the next two poems, " Each and All," and " The Problem." " I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." "Good-Bye," "Woodnotes," "The Rhodora," « The Humble-Bee," " The Snow-Storm," — these poems lack... | |
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I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye. 
