Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History ...

William Henry Davenport Adams

W.P. Nimmo, 1876 - 427 pagini

Cuprins

• CHAP PAGE: 3
• WHAT MAY BE SEEN UPON THE EARTH: 29
• CONTENTS: 42
• CHAP: 101
• WHAT MAY BE SEEN ON THE EARTH: 132
• WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN THE HEAVENS: 191
• 22: 289
• WHAT MAY BE SEEN ON THE EARTH: 312

Pasaje populare

Pagina 7 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.

Pagina 7 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Pagina 288 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Pagina 247 - And all at once they sang, ' Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam...

Pagina 375 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Pagina 400 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.

Pagina 32 - The keener tempests come: and, fuming dun From all the livid east or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend, in whose capacious womb A vapoury deluge lies, to snow congealed. Heavy they roll their fleecy world along, And the sky saddens with the gathered storm. Through the hushed air the whitening shower descends, At first thin-wavering; till at last the flakes Fall broad and wide and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow.

Pagina 274 - GREEN little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June; Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When even the bees lag at the summoning brass; And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass...

Informații bibliografice

• Titlu: Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History ...
• Autor: William Henry Davenport Adams
• Editor: William Henry Davenport Adams
• Editor: W.P. Nimmo, 1876
• Exemplar original de la: Universitatea din California
• Scanată la: 20 Sept 2007
• Lungime: 427 pagini