The English Landscape in Picture, Prose and PoetryKathleen Conyngham Greene |
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... soft breeze with exquisite odour . These here are trees , not bushes , standing separate , with thick gnarled stems so polished by the constant rubbing of cattle as almost to shine like varnish . The may - bloom , pure white in its full ...
... soft breeze with exquisite odour . These here are trees , not bushes , standing separate , with thick gnarled stems so polished by the constant rubbing of cattle as almost to shine like varnish . The may - bloom , pure white in its full ...
Page 154
... soft and low , Whether it rusheth amain . Dark as the night it spreadeth its wings , Slow and silently up on the hills ; Then sweeps o'er the vale , like a steed that springs From the grasp of a thousand wills . Swift sweeps under ...
... soft and low , Whether it rusheth amain . Dark as the night it spreadeth its wings , Slow and silently up on the hills ; Then sweeps o'er the vale , like a steed that springs From the grasp of a thousand wills . Swift sweeps under ...
Page 174
... soft - lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half - reap'd furrow sound asleep , Drowsed with the fume of poppies , while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers ; And sometime like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy ...
... soft - lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half - reap'd furrow sound asleep , Drowsed with the fume of poppies , while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers ; And sometime like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy ...
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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