The English Landscape in Picture, Prose and PoetryKathleen Conyngham Greene |
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Page 61
... rise tall beech trees with smooth round trunks , whose roots push and project through the wall of chalk , and bend downwards , sometimes dislodging lumps of rubble to roll headlong among the bushes below . A few small firs cling half ...
... rise tall beech trees with smooth round trunks , whose roots push and project through the wall of chalk , and bend downwards , sometimes dislodging lumps of rubble to roll headlong among the bushes below . A few small firs cling half ...
Page 77
... rise and leap . And sometimes a slow figure ' neath the trees , In ancient - fashioned smock , with tottering care , Upon a staff propping his weary knees , May by the pathway of the forest fare : As from a buried day Across the mind ...
... rise and leap . And sometimes a slow figure ' neath the trees , In ancient - fashioned smock , with tottering care , Upon a staff propping his weary knees , May by the pathway of the forest fare : As from a buried day Across the mind ...
Page 78
... rise will be , when the water seems to palpitate with life and the big fish which have lain hidden all the year come up to the top , when the duns float down thick and steady and stand out clear upon the shining water , when the swifts ...
... rise will be , when the water seems to palpitate with life and the big fish which have lain hidden all the year come up to the top , when the duns float down thick and steady and stand out clear upon the shining water , when the swifts ...
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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