The English Landscape in Picture, Prose and PoetryKathleen Conyngham Greene |
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Page 121
... plain like this of Suffolk with its enormous sky . The curious have an insufficient motive for going to the mountains if they do it to see the sunrise . The sun that leaps from a mountain peak is a sun past the dew of his birth ; he has ...
... plain like this of Suffolk with its enormous sky . The curious have an insufficient motive for going to the mountains if they do it to see the sunrise . The sun that leaps from a mountain peak is a sun past the dew of his birth ; he has ...
Page 178
... plain . Thus wears the month along , in checkered moods , Sunshine and shadows , tempests loud , and calms ; One hour dies silent o'er the sleepy woods , The next wakes loud with unexpected storms ; A dreary nakedness the field deforms ...
... plain . Thus wears the month along , in checkered moods , Sunshine and shadows , tempests loud , and calms ; One hour dies silent o'er the sleepy woods , The next wakes loud with unexpected storms ; A dreary nakedness the field deforms ...
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... plain Of wavering spear - grass past Pangani river , England came to me - me who had always ta'en But never given before - England , the giver , In a vision of three poplar - trees that shiver On still evenings of summer , after rain ...
... plain Of wavering spear - grass past Pangani river , England came to me - me who had always ta'en But never given before - England , the giver , In a vision of three poplar - trees that shiver On still evenings of summer , after rain ...
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The English Landscape in Picture, Prose and Poetry Greene, Kathleen Conyngham No preview available - 1932 |
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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