Has a thought about her nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, Spreading out thy glossy breast Like a careless Prodigal; Telling tales about the sun, When we've little warmth, or none. The Country Month by Month - Page 71by Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger - 1902 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1849 - 896 pages
...Wordsworth says, — •With half a call, Spreading oat its glossy breast, Like a cureless prodigal. Ere a leaf Is on a bush ; In the time before the thrush Hua a thought about Its nest, Telling talei about the sun, When we've little warmth or none.' ffe little... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...more, and yet Twas a face I did not know; Thou hast now, go where I may, Fifty greeting's in a day. cial astrology, and was a seeker for the philosopher's-stono,...restoration he was almost wholly illiterate. Very probabl Poets, vain men in their mood! Travel with the multitude; Never heed them; I aver That they are all... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1852 - 874 pages
...in happy expressions and images. What truth of nature poetically exhibited is there in this stanza ! Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thrush...tales about the sun When we've little warmth or none. Of all common flowers, the small celandine is the most burnished ; it seemi as if the sun had enclosed... | |
| Henrietta Dumont - 1852 - 330 pages
...greetings in a day. Ere a leaf is on the hush, In the time before the thrush Has a thought about its nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, Spreading out...careless prodigal ; Telling tales about the sun, When there's little warmth or none. Wordsworth. Shakspeare regarded the Violet as the emblem of constancy,... | |
| Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...chilling showers. Ere a leaf is on the bush, In the time before the thrush Has a thought about its nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, Spreading out...careless Prodigal ; Telling tales about the sun, When we 've little warmth, or none. Comfort have thou of thy merit, Kindly, unassuming spirit ! Careless... | |
| Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...chilling showm. lire a leaf is on the bush, In the time before the thraeh Has a thought about its neat, Thou wilt come with half a call. Spreading out thy glossy breast, Like a cartlcss Prodigal ; Telling tnb~ .i!>out the »un, When W('\ httle warmth or none. " Comfort liave... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 pages
...in happy expressions and images. What truth of nature poetically exhibited is there in this stanza ! Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thrush...careless Prodigal ; Telling tales about the sun When we're little warmth or none Of all common flowers the small celandine is the most burnished: it teemi... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 pages
...in happy expressions and images. What truth of nature poetically exhibited is there in this stanza ! Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thr&sh Has a thought about her nest, Thou wilt come with half a call. Spreading out thy glossy breast... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 pages
...in happy expressions and images. What truth of nature poetically exhibited is there in this stanza 1 Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thrush...tales about the sun When we've little warmth or none Of all common flowers the small celandine is the most burnished : it seems as if the Sun had inclosed... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...in happy expressions and images. What truth of nature poetically exhibited is there in this stanza ! Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thrush...tales about the sun When we've little warmth or none Of all common flowers the small celandine is the most burnished : it seems as if the Sun had inclosed... | |
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