 | Home and colonial school society - 1848 - 412 pages
...March is seldom of long duration. " As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless." Cheerful sights and sounds, however, daily increase and succeed to the sombre skies and chilling silence... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfed, To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 772 pages
...torrents lost, The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is uneonfirm'd, And Winter oft at ere resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleet s 20 Deform the day delight less: so that searee The bittern knows his time, with bill engulf... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 450 pages
...earthly turi 2 moil. The contest between spring and winter is loug and severe, for * ( Winter oft at once resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day, delightless." Yet when gentler gales succeed, and the waters run off in torrents through the channels which they... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 524 pages
...mountains lift their green heads to the sky As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets 80 Deform the day delightless: so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfd, To shake... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...lifts their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless: so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfed, To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill engulf'd To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
 | 1853 - 394 pages
...the year is young : — As yet the trembling year is nnconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes tlie breeze ; Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless. But the day is even now at our doors, when Spring, with all its enchanting beauties, will burst upon... | |
 | David Thomas - 468 pages
...the face of Spring — put its rough and chilly hand suddenly and violently upon its warm bosom. " Winter oft at ere resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids the driving sleet Deform the day." It is so with the new spiritual life. The old life will often intrude... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...in March is seldom of long duration. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless. The importance of a dry season for getting the seed early and favorably into the ground, is expressed... | |
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To shake the sounding marsh; or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him. Then no more Th... 
