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Gleanings from the English Poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with Biogr. Notices of the Authors [By R. Inglis]. - Softcover
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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. 1862 Excerpt: ...however, he enjoyed only for a short time, as he died the same year. SPRING. Mindful of disaster past, And shrinking at the northern blast, The sleety storm returning still, The morning hoar, the evening chill, Reluctant comes the timid Spring: Scarce a bee, with airy ring, Murmurs the blossomed boughs around That clothe the garden's southern bound: Scarce the hardy primrose peeps From the dark dell's entangled steeps: O'er the field of waving broom Slowly shoots the golden bloom: And but by fits the furze-clad dale Tinctures the transitory gale. Scant along the ridgy land The beans their newborn ranks expand; The fresh-turned soil, with tender blades, Thinly the sprouting barley shades; Fringing the forest's devious edge Half-robed appears the hawthorn hedge; Or to the distant eye displays, Weakly green, its budding sprays. The swallow, for a moment seen, Skims in haste the village green; From the gray moor, on feeble wing, The screaming plovers idly spring; The butterfly, gay-painted, soon Explores awhile the tepid noon; And fondly trusts its tender dyes To fickle suns and flattering skies. ON A PAINTED "WINDOW AT OXFORD. Ye brawny Prophets, that in robes so rich, At distance due, possess the crisped niche; Ye rows of Patriarchs, that, sublimely reared, Diffuse a proud primeval length of beard: Ye saints, who, clad in crimson's bright array, More pride than humble poverty display: Ye Virgins meek, that wear the palmy crown Of patient faith, and yet so fiercely frown: Ye Angels, that from clouds of gold recline, But boast no semblance to a race divine: Ye tragic Tales of legendary lore, That draw devotion's ready tear no more; Ye Martyrdoms of unenlightened days, Ye Miracles that now no wonder raise; Shapes, that with one broad glare the gazer strike,...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231029870
- ISBN 13 9781231029879
- BindingPaperback
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