Wayfarers in Arcady

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1922 - Всего страниц: 168
 

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Стр. 17 - Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make "Gainst the hot season ; the mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely tales...
Стр. 77 - What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
Стр. 40 - HE shepherd upon a hill he sat, He had on him his tabard and his hat, His tar-box, his pipe, and his flagat, His name was called Jolly, Jolly Wat ! For he was a good herds-boy, Ut hoy ! For in his pipe he made so much joy. Can I not sing but hoy. The shepherd upon a hill was laid, His dog to his girdle was tayd, He had not slept but a little braid But
Стр. 20 - I never get between the pines But I smell the Sussex air; Nor I never come on a belt of sand But my home is there. And along the sky the line of the Downs So noble and so bare.
Стр. 18 - And where these flowers bloom, and where the plough turns the earth and the corn is sown, and the road runs and the sheep feed, among all these things that belong to the quiet and sheltered places of the earth, there is also such a sense of spacious emptiness, inhabited only by the light and the wind, as one will not find on the highest hills, but only in the sky.
Стр. 16 - For the faces and the very stature of the hills change and change again with the changes of the sky. But the Downs do not change. There is something in their pure and beautiful shape which is stronger than any storms and than all the moods of the sky. Night and the clouds alike rest very gently on them.
Стр. 5 - THE TWO VALLEYS OF the two valleys one was long and narrow, the other like half of a great bowl ; and the second valley, since it looked towards the northeast while the long valley looked towards the north-west, was the first to be filled by the sunlight in the morning and by the shadows in the evening.
Стр. 10 - Last of all came the cows, and their hour was when the day began to turn, and the valleys seemed to ripen, growing golden and mellow in the sun ; and the rim of the rounded valley was marked with a foot of dark shadow, like the painting round the rim of a bowl.
Стр. 25 - It's like a wave," he repeated. "It hasn't started to break yet — but perhaps one day it will.

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