And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5281851Full view - About this book
| 1885 - 816 pages
...well be seen, Thrilling back over hill and valley; The cowslip starts in meadows green, The butter-cup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf or blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt... | |
| American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf or blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt... | |
| American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never...palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves. " Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath... | |
| Florence Montgomery - English fiction - 1886 - 366 pages
...be seen. Thrilling back over hills and valleys. The cowslip startles in meadows green The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never...blade too mean, To be some happy creature's palace. — Lowell. But John Eamsay felt none of all this. He thought it oppressively hot in the sun on the... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 746 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun His mate feels the eggs... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never...palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1888 - 286 pages
...startles in meadows green,; The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. The little bird sits at, his door in, the sun, Atilt, like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
| Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - Education - 1892 - 626 pages
...notice the sounds of summer. There is the bird's song, and Lowell's words tell the story : — ' ' The little bird sits at his door in the sun, A tilt...blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
| California. State Board of Education - English language - 1889 - 172 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
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