The English Landscape in Picture, Prose and PoetryKathleen Conyngham Greene |
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... elms . In front , and somewhat lower , a streamlet winds , fringing the sward , and across it the fir plantations begin , their dark sombre foliage hanging over the water . A dead willow trunk thrown from bank to bank forms a rude ...
... elms . In front , and somewhat lower , a streamlet winds , fringing the sward , and across it the fir plantations begin , their dark sombre foliage hanging over the water . A dead willow trunk thrown from bank to bank forms a rude ...
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... elms . Not unbeloved is this serious tree , the elm , with its leaf sitting close , unthrilled . Its stature gives it a dark gold head when it looks alone to the late sun . But if one could go by all the woods , across all the old ...
... elms . Not unbeloved is this serious tree , the elm , with its leaf sitting close , unthrilled . Its stature gives it a dark gold head when it looks alone to the late sun . But if one could go by all the woods , across all the old ...
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... ELM AND SYCAMORE Witch - elms that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright ; And thou , with all thy breadth and height Of foliage , towering sycamore . . . . Tennyson . Maud Shelley BIRCHES AND BRACKEN WIMBLEDON ...
... ELM AND SYCAMORE Witch - elms that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright ; And thou , with all thy breadth and height Of foliage , towering sycamore . . . . Tennyson . Maud Shelley BIRCHES AND BRACKEN WIMBLEDON ...
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Alice Meynell AUTHOR'S EXECUTORS beautiful beech beneath birch birds bloom blossom blue boughs bower breeze bright Burfield Dyer C. H. Brading Charlotte Mew Childerditch clouds COTTAGE dance dark delightful distant Dorothy Wordsworth doth elms ENGLISH LANDSCAPE EXECUTORS and MESSRS extract eyes farm fields flocks flowers forest FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG G. W. Norris golden grass green grey happy hawthorn heart heaven hedge Huntingdon James Elroy Flecker John Masefield land leaf leaves light look lovely Maud Shelley meadows morn murmur night o'er P. G. Read pines poem pool poplars R. D. Blackmore rain Richard Jefferies road Robert Bridges rock round Sackville-West sail scrap of garden shade sheep shepherd sing sleep soft spire spring stream summer sweet Thames thee Thomas Hardy thou twitter vale valley village violets W. B. Wilson W. H. Hudson weather wild William Cobbett winter woods Young Beichan