Days and Hours in a GardenRoberts Bros., 1884 - Всего страниц: 204 |
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... Walk Mea- dow , because here the nuns used to walk . The great Walnut tree , which they might possibly have known , only died after we came . It was cut down for firewood , and its hollows were full of big chestnut - coloured 66 rat ...
... Walk Mea- dow , because here the nuns used to walk . The great Walnut tree , which they might possibly have known , only died after we came . It was cut down for firewood , and its hollows were full of big chestnut - coloured 66 rat ...
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... walk , old brick walls , with stone balls on the corners , two or three old wrought iron gates in the wrong places , dabs of kitchen garden and potato plots , stable - yard and carriage entrance occupying the whole south front , with a ...
... walk , old brick walls , with stone balls on the corners , two or three old wrought iron gates in the wrong places , dabs of kitchen garden and potato plots , stable - yard and carriage entrance occupying the whole south front , with a ...
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... entrance is re- moved to the north side ; the stable - yard is removed also , and instead thereof are turf and straight walks , and a sun dial , and a parterr for bedding - out things - the sole plot 8 DAYS AND HOURS.
... entrance is re- moved to the north side ; the stable - yard is removed also , and instead thereof are turf and straight walks , and a sun dial , and a parterr for bedding - out things - the sole plot 8 DAYS AND HOURS.
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... walks between Yew hedges and flower borders , Beech hedges , and a long green tunnel — the allée verte - so named in remembrance of a bower - walk in an old family place , no longer in existence . There are nooks and corners , and a ...
... walks between Yew hedges and flower borders , Beech hedges , and a long green tunnel — the allée verte - so named in remembrance of a bower - walk in an old family place , no longer in existence . There are nooks and corners , and a ...
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... in some huge heaps of dead leaves , that I see already stored in the rubbish yard . The dead leaves have to be swept away from lawn and garden walks - but I believe we do not con- sider any except those of Beech and Oak to be ...
... in some huge heaps of dead leaves , that I see already stored in the rubbish yard . The dead leaves have to be swept away from lawn and garden walks - but I believe we do not con- sider any except those of Beech and Oak to be ...
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amongst Anemones Apple Atalanta Aucuba autumn beautiful beds Beech birds bloom blossoms blue border branches bright broad walk brown buds bushes charming Christmas Rose Clematis colour corner crimson Cryptomeria Daffodils Dahlia dark DAYS AND HOURS deep delight Elms fantail pigeons Fantaisie favourite flowers foliage frost glow golden Grape Hyacinths grass green grey growing Hyacinths Iris Irises kind Laburnum lawn leaf leaves lilac Lilies Lobelia look loveliness lovely morning moss Moss Rose Narcissus Narcissus poeticus nests never once Pæony pale parterr patch Peas perfect petals Phlox plant pleasant Poppies Primroses purple rain Rhododendrons rooks Roses round Salvia patens scarcely scarlet scent season seems shade shining side smell sort spring stalks stems stone Stone Pine summer Sunflower sweet tall thing Thorn thrushes trees Tulips turf Vine Violets wall white Pink wild window winter yellow Yew hedges young
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Стр. 47 - In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity : The north cannot undo them With a sleety whistle through them, Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook. Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look ; But with a sweet forgetting They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ah ! would 'twere so with many A gentle girl and boy ! But were there...
Стр. 176 - Ah, Sunflower! Ah, sunflower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
Стр. 163 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flow'r of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Стр. 5 - In busy companies of men. Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow; Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. No white nor red was ever seen So amorous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress
Стр. 76 - The spurging of a dead man's eyes : And all since the evening starre did rise. 3 WITCH I last night lay all alone O...
Стр. 186 - How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom, — in graceful succession, in equal fulness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unravelled, nor shown.
Стр. 50 - To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.
Стр. 98 - DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY has come up to town, In a yellow petticoat, and a green gown.
Стр. 152 - More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before : The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past