 Still there's a sense of blossoms yet unborn In the sweet airs of morn; One almost looks to see the very street Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before...  War Poetry of the South - Page 333edited by - 1867 - 482 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edna Henry Lee Turpin - Readers - 1902 - 432 pages
...street Grow purple at his feet. 289 Some wondrous pageant; and you scarce would start, If from some beech's heart, A blue-eyed dryad, stepping forth,...war and crime With such a blessed time ? Who, in the west wind's aromatic breath, Could hear the call of death ? Yet not more surely shall the spring awake... | |
 | 1902 - 494 pages
...Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace gate Some wonderous pageant; and you scarce would start, If, from a beech's heart, A blue-eyed Dryad, stepping... | |
 | Arthur John Lockhart - English essays - 1903 - 396 pages
...Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace...stepping forth, should say, 'Behold me! I am May!' " II. Ye who put your faith in visions of the Muse, and of such revelations of musical goddesses as... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1014 pages
...Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace...stepping forth, should say, "Behold me! I am May!" HENRY TIMROD. SPRING. AGAIN the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun,... | |
 | American literature - 1904 - 496 pages
...Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace...stepping forth, should say, " Behold me ! I am May ! " Who in the west wind's aromatic breath Could hear the call of Death ! Yet not more surely shall... | |
 | George Frederic Viett - 1905 - 312 pages
...Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze conies floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace...stepping forth, should say, "Behold me! I am May!" —HENRY TEMROD. ROME IN HER DECADENCE. We may read in the compressed and haughty page of Tacitus the... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - Readers (Primary) - 1905 - 408 pages
...Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace...wondrous pageant ; and you scarce would start, If from some beech's heart A blue-eyed dryad, stepping forth, should say, " Behold me ! I am May ! " SIR WALTER... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - Readers (Primary) - 1905 - 402 pages
...crowds await Before a palace gate, Some wondrous pageant ; and you scarce would start, If from some beech's heart A blue-eyed dryad, stepping forth, should say, " Behold me ! I am May ! " SIR WALTER SCOTT. man'u script min'strel sy pa ral'y sis 1. WALTER SCOTT, the great master of fiction,... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 336 pages
...The violet in its screen. "At times a fragrant breeze conies floating by, And brings you know not why A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace...stepping forth should say, 'Behold me ! I am May.' "* Savannah was not the only Georgia city which lavished its love and homage on Robert E. Lee. Similar... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace...stepping forth, should say, " Behold me! I am May! " HENRY TIMROD. JUNE I GAZED upon the glorious sky, And the green mountains round, And thought that... | |
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