 Seldom seen by wishful eyes; But all her shows did Nature yield, To please and win this pilgrim wise. He saw the partridge drum in the woods; He heard the woodcock's evening hymn; He found the tawny thrushes...  Pepacton - Page 104by John Burroughs - 1881 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1882 - 994 pages
...Seldom seen by wishful eyes; But all her shows did Nature yield To please and win this pilgrim wise. He saw the partridge drum in the woods; He heard the...thrush's broods ; And the shy hawk did wait for him ; What others did at distance hear, And guessed within the thicket's gloom, Was showed to this philosopher,... | |
 | 1882 - 988 pages
...Seldom seen by wishful eyes; But all her shows did Nature yield To please and win this pilgrim wise. He saw the partridge drum in the woods ; He heard...found the tawny thrush's broods ; And the shy hawk did waii for him ; What others did at distance hear, And guessed within the thicket's gloom, Was showed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...Seldom seen by wishful eyes; But all her shows did Nature yield, To please and win this pilgrim wise. He saw the partridge drum in the woods; He heard the woodcock's evening hymn; He found the tawny thrushes' broods; And the shy hawk did wait for him ; What others did at distance hear, And guessed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...Seldom seen by wishful eyes; But all her shows did Nature yield, To please and win this pilgrim wise. He saw the partridge drum in the woods ; He heard the woodcock's evening hymn ; He found the tawny thrushes' broods; And the shy hawk did wait for him ; What others did at distance hear, And guessed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 380 pages
...Seldom seen by wishful eyes ; But all her shows did Nature yield, To please and win this pilgrim wise. He saw the partridge drum in the woods ; He heard the woodcock's evening hymn ; He found the tawny thrushes' broods ; And the shy hawk did wait for him ; What others did at distance hear, And guessed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...Seldom seen by wishful eyes ; But all her shows did Nature yield, To please and win this pilgrim wise. He saw the partridge drum in the woods ; He heard the woodcock's evening hymn ; He found the tawny thrushes' bi.oods; And the shy hawk did wait for him ; What others did at distance hear, And guessed... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 336 pages
...latter rhyme with " woodpecker:" — " He saw beneath dim aisles, in odorous beds, The slight of Linmea hang its twin-born heads. He heard, when in the grove,...drum in the woods ; He heard the woodcock's evening hynm ; He found the tawny thrush's broods ; And the shy hawk did wait for him." His "Titmouse" is studied... | |
 | 1884 - 128 pages
...Seldom seen by wishful eyes, But all her shows did Nature yield, To please and win this pilgrim wise. He saw the partridge drum in the woods ; He heard the woodcock's evening hymn ; He found the tawny thrushes' broods ; And the shy hawk did wait for him ; What others did at distance hear, And guessed... | |
 | William Herbert Smith - 1885 - 192 pages
...opened in its virgin bower, As if a sunbeam showed the place, And tell its long descended race, * * * He saw the partridge drum in the woods ; He heard...woodcock's evening hymn ; He found the tawny thrush's brood ; And the shy hawk did wait for him." RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Wolsingham is a Market Town situated... | |
 | Alpheus Baker Hervey - 1885 - 234 pages
...blessed the monument of the man of flowers. Which breathes his sweet lame' through the northern bowers. He found the tawny thrush's broods: And the shy hawk did wait for him; What others did at distance hear, And guessed within the thicket's gloom, Was showed to this philosopher,... | |
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