The trees of old EnglandPitman, 1868 - 96 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
abundance acorn alder ancient appearance ash-tree autumn bark beautiful beech berries birch birds blossom botanical botanists boughs branches buds called catkins cedar charming chesnut Clethra clusters colour cone conifers connection Corydon cotyledons curious decay delicate delight dioecious distinct dwarf birch elegant England Enone epiphyte examples exquisite extremities feet female feminine fern flowers foliage forest fruit garden Georgic give glorious grand grass-of-Parnassus green grow growth heart horse-chesnut human idea innumerable insects kind Language of Flowers leaf leaves Lebanon light lime lime-tree maple mistletoe mountain-ash nature ordinarily ornament palms peculiar pine and fir pine-wood pistil plants poets poplar portion present pretty produce remarkable resemblance round Salix samaras season seed species spectacle spring stamens stand summer surface sweet sycamore tender things Tilia tint trees trunk twigs variety vegetable willow wing winter wood wych-elm yew-tree young
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Página 5 - They shall not build, and another inhabit: they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Página 17 - The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays...
Página 60 - There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Página 59 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismay'd away. LOR. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Página 64 - Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms; Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold Moon (as fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree, is thine.
Página 60 - Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own distress...
Página 63 - From Britain's painted sons I came, And basket is my barbarous name ; Yet now I am so modish grown, That Rome would claim me for her own.
Página 92 - The Mountain -ash No eye can overlook, when 'mid a grove Of yet unfaded trees she lifts her head Decked with autumnal berries, that outshine Spring's richest blossoms...
Página 53 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Página 59 - Quab's populea rnaerens philomela sub umbra Amissos queritur fetus, quos durus arator Observans nido implumes detraxit ; at ilia Flet noctem, ramoque sedens miserabile carmen Integrat, et maestis late loca questibus implet.