 I planted on the hillside which overlooks the broad meadows, scalloped and rounded at their edges by loops of the sinuous Housatonic. Nature finds rhymes for them in the recurring measures of the seasons. Winter strips them of their ornaments and gives...  Forests and Floods - Strana 10autor/autoři: Birdsey Grant Northrop - 1885 - 37 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1882 - 1096 str.
...it were, in prose translation, and summer rcclothes them in all the splendid phrases of their leiity language. What are these maples and beeches and birches...firs and spruces but holy hymns, too solemn for the many-lined raiment of their gay, deciduous neighbors? " To be taught to think," says a distinguished... | |
 | Ohio state forestry association - 1884 - 80 str.
...in the recurring measures of the seasons. Winter strips i hem of their ornaments and gives them, PS it were, in prose translation, and Summer reclothes...and idyls and madrigals? What are these pines and flr« and spruces but holy hymns, too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors?... | |
 | Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1886 - 552 str.
...Wendell Homes, but the poems I have produced are the trees I planted on the hill-side which overlook the broad meadows, scalloped and rounded at their...Birches, but odes and idyls and madrigals? What are those Pines and Firs, and Spruces but holy hymns, too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay... | |
 | Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1887 - 700 str.
...Oak.—We will hear what 0. W. Holmes says on this subject. Tamarack (Elias).—Dr. 0. W. Holmes says: "I have written many verses, but the best poems I...What are these pines and firs and spruces but holy rhymes, too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors? " As you drop the seed,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1889 - 900 str.
...— We will hear what OW Holmes says on this subject. Tamarack (Elias). — Dr. OW Holmes says : " 1 have written many verses, but the best poems I have...What are these pines and firs and spruces but holy rhymes, too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors ? " As you drop the seed,... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 str.
...strips them of llieir ornaments and gives them, as it were, in prose translation, and summer reclothcs them in all the splendid phrases of their leafy language....and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals? What arc these pines and firs and spruces but holy rhymes, too solemn for the many-hucd raiment of their... | |
 | Eldridge Eugene Fish - 1890 - 272 str.
...all the splendid phrases of their leafy language. Wliat are these maples and leeches and lirches lut odes and idyls and madrigals ? What are these pines and firs and spruces lut holy hymns, too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighlors. It is enough... | |
 | Oregon. Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction - 1891 - 332 str.
...outlive the memery of more than one of those in whose honor they were planted. "What are these maplef and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals? What are these pines and firs and spruces but,holy hymns, too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors."—Holmes. Fair... | |
 | John Bradley Peaslee - 1900 - 442 str.
...translation, and summer reclothes them in all the splendid phrases of their leafy language. What arc these maples and beeches and birches but odes and...firs and spruces but holy hymns, too solemn for the many-hned raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors ? But I must not let my fancy run away with me.... | |
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