A Country Lane: Its Flora and Its FaunaHamilton, 1878 - 28 páginas |
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A Country Lane: Its Flora and Its Fauna - Primary Source Edition James Robinson No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2014 |
Términos y frases comunes
afford amongst anthers appear Arum attractive banks beauty berries Bird Cherry Bitter Sweet blue Bramble build their nest Campion Lychnis Chaffinch cheer cluster of bright colours common birds Crane's-bill Geranium delicate Digitalis Double U double douser downy leaves droop Dunnock earth eggs feathered five petals floral flowers close foliage forked branch Foxglove fragrance gather glossy golden grass grateful eye Guelder Rose hazel hedge hedge-row Honeysuckle Humble-bee insect lane Lark law of compensation leafy lichens lovely melody mingled morning nature pale green perhaps pink pleasant odour pleasure possess Prunus purple flowers Redbreast roots scarlet Scotland season seen shining side Sloe slope solitary spadix Speedwell spikes spots spring and summer stamens starch Stitchwort Stellaria summer advances tint Tuberous Moschatel tweet undisturbed unmolested vegetable vernal Violet walk warblers white blossoms white flowers whole plant Wild Hyacinth Wild Rose winds wings winter Wood Sorrel Wordsworth Wren wrinkled leaves
Pasajes populares
Página 28 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 9 - In every copse and sheltered dell, Unveiled to the observant eye, Are faithful monitors who tell How pass the hours and seasons by. The green-robed children of the spring Will mark the periods as they pass, Mingle with leaves Time's feathered wing, And bind with flowers his silent glass.
Página 9 - The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Página 4 - Like the fond dove from fearful prison freed, Each seems to say, " come, let us try our speed...
Página 22 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirits, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit, while they fill the mind, Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering all at once.
Página 28 - When comes still evening on, and twilight grey hath in her sober liv'ry all things clad/' then it is that the white owl comes abroad. Passing the remains of an old baronial hall, its piercing screech comes from the dismantled tower. Here the owls have lived time out of mind, and we have seen and heard them, asleep and awake, through every hour of the day and night.
Página 14 - No, let it be: despise it not ; For with its homely smiles It brightens else a barren spot, Perchance a care beguiles. For even this, to please receives, From HIM who made it, power ; I've seen an insect on its leaves, A bee upon its flower.
Página 12 - The foxglove on fair Flora's hand is worn, Lest, while she gather flowers, she meet a thorn.