And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels... A System of Rhetoric - Page 248by Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 673 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1875 - 44 pages
...And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and tower* And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush... | |
| James Madison Watson - Readers - 1876 - 484 pages
...And over it s6ftly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might,...for light* Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers. 5. The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - History - 1876 - 262 pages
...the topmost height of our modern civilization, there is evident a force of uplifting and onlooking. " Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within...for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers." What the poet here sings of the lower life of the spring may be taken as typical of the grand truth... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - History - 1881 - 264 pages
...the topmost height of our modern civilization, there is evident a force of uplifting and onlooking. " Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within...for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers." What the poet here sings of the lower life of the spring may be taken as typical of the grand truth... | |
| Thomas Starr King - White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) - 1876 - 446 pages
...And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might,...and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Clii ii i ii to a soul in grass and flowers; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might,...An instinct within it that reaches and towers And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life may... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might,...and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, (.'limbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The Hush of life nmy well be seen Thrilling back over lulls... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass...flowers ; The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling l»ck over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1897 - 428 pages
...And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; " Every clod feels a stir of might,...within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly abo%-e it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers." His paintings and sketches stir in one... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1877 - 992 pages
...penetrative imagination displayed in single pictures is wonderful ; take for instance the four lines : Every clod feels a stir of might An instinct within it that reaches and towers ; And grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers. Mr. Lowell's later poems... | |
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