John Greenleaf Whittier
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217855198
Paperback|9780217855198
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And the song she was singing ever since In my ear sounds on: ? Stay at home, pretty bees, fly not hence Mistress Mary is dead and gone BURNS1 ON RECEIVING A SPRIG OF HEATHER IN BLOSSOM No more these simple flowers belong To Scottish maid and lover; Sown in the common soil of song, They bloom the wide world over. In smiles and tears, in sun and showers, The minstrel and the heather, The deathless singer and the flowers He sang of live together. Wild heather-bells and Robert Burns The moorland flower and peasant How, at their mention, memory turns Her pages old and pleasant The gray sky wears again its gold And purple of adorning, And manhood's noonday shadows hold The dews of boyhood's morning: 1 See Carpenter's Whittier, p. 30. The dews that washed the dust and soil From off the wings of pleasure, The sky that flecked the ground of toil With golden threads of leisure. I call to mind the summer day, The early harvest mowing, The sky with sun and clouds at play, And flowers with breezes blowing. I hear the blackbird in the corn, The locust in the haying; And, like the fabled hunter's horn, Old tunes my heart is playing. How oft that day, with fond delay, I sought the maple's shadow, And sang with Burns the hours away, Forgetful of the meadow Bees hummed, birds twittered, overhead I heard the squirrels leaping, The good dog listened while I read, And wagged his tail in keeping. I watched him while in sportive mood I read The Two, Dogs' story, And half believed he understood The poet's allegory. Sweet day, sweet songs The golden hours Grew brighter for that singing, From brook and bird and meadow flowers A dearer welcome bringing. New light on home-seen Nature be...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217855198 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217855199 |
| Weight | 0.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.17 In |
| List Price | $10.07 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 70 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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