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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1919 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX QUOTATIONS RELATING TO NATURE We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.--Emerson. I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.--Montaigne. Birds The swallow twitters about the eaves; Blithely she sings, and sweet, and clear; Around her climb the woodbine leaves In a golden atmosphere. Celia Thaxter. The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house. Thomson. But the whip-poor-will wails on the moor. And day has deserted the west: The moon glimmers down thro' the vines at my door And the robin has flown to her nest. James G. Clarke. Where deep and misty shadows float In forests depths is heard thy note. Like a lost spirit, earthbound still, Art thou, mysterious whip-poor-will. Marie Le Baron. Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the little Wren's In snugness may compare. Wordsworth. Si le ciel tombait les cailles seraient prises. Butterflies I'd be a butterfly born in a bow'r, Where roses and lilies and violets meet. T. H. Bayly. With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; Heine. And pluck the wings from painted butterflies To fan the moon-beams from his sleeping eyes. Shakespeare. The gold barr'd butterflies to and fro And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow. Joaquin Miller. Day Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, tThe bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Herbert. Blest power of sunshine!--genial Day, What balm, what life is in thy ray; To feel there is such real bliss, That had the world n...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 115061143X
- ISBN 13 9781150611438
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages44
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