 And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the 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 Literary History of America - Page 399by Barrett Wendell - 1901 - 574 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1881 - 222 pages
...LEAVITT HUNT. X o tH S5 CK O EH X O . — • J .->?.••-.'•=: ^SSvS^p s. -T 'xt/ ,* ^ u/* JUNE. AND what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether \ve... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - 1881 - 378 pages
...be had for the asking ; No price is set on the lavish summer ; June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days. Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. y. R. Lowell. The bobolink has come,... | |
 | Henry B. Buckham - 1881 - 270 pages
...tremendous game played for himself, and inaccessible to the power of man."—Salathiel, Chap. XX. " And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays: The cowslip startles in meadows green,... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 498 pages
...of fire, The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. SHELLEY. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen,... | |
 | George Milner - 1881 - 370 pages
...abode Till all the paths were dim, And far below the Roundhead rode, And humm'da surly hymn. JUNE. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then if ever come perfect days ; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look or whether we listen,... | |
 | Anna Botsford Comstock - 1939 - 916 pages
...represented by crosses ( + ) have south declination. 850 851 THE RELATIONS OF THE SUN TO THE EARTH Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glisten. — LOWELL All this murmuring and glistening life on our earth planet has its source in the great sun... | |
 | Allen Lacy - 1990 - 386 pages
...an indispensable feature to a perfect landscape. [Rural Essays (1854)] [316] Frank J. Scott The Lawn Whether we look, or whether we listen We hear life murmur, or see it gfisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. (1. 73-81) The Vision of Sir Launfal 17 nd for the day confined to fast in fires. Till the...tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale 18 Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward striving;... | |
 | Alan Lupack - 1992 - 512 pages
...for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...be had for the asking; No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen,... | |
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