 | James Thomson - 1880 - 548 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 ingulphed To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
 | George Milner - 1881 - 370 pages
...English spring is proverbial : — 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. More than once we have had snow. On the twentysecond a few ' fortuitous atoms ' came wavering down... | |
 | James Thomson - 1881 - 502 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 20 Deform the day delightlcss : so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulf'd To shake... | |
 | 1882 - 666 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 ingulf'd To shake the sounding marsh; or from... | |
 | 1847 - 778 pages
...the magical practice of Claude well represents the vigorous action vA power of his pen. Nor are we Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless ; so that scarce The bittern knows his time, wilh bill engulf'd To shake the sounding marsh, or from... | |
 | Henry Whitney Bellows - 1885 - 412 pages
...had strayed from a southern heaven. " As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids...driving sleets Deform the day delightless." THOMSON. A week, however, may not pass, a fortnight will not, before a marked and momentous change will make... | |
 | Illustrated readers - 1885 - 234 pages
...the earthly turmoil. The contest between spring and winter is long and severe, for Winter oft at once resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day, delightless. 2. Yet when gentler gales succeed, and the waters run off in torrents through the channels which they... | |
 | Henry Whitney Bellows - 1886 - 422 pages
...had strayed from a southern heaven. " 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 delighdess." THOMSON. A week, however, may not pass, a fortnight will not, before a marked and momentous... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - 586 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 ingulpht To shake the sounding marsh, or from... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 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 20 Deform the day delightless, — so that scarce The bittern knows his time with bill ingulfed To... | |
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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... 
