The Chronicles of a Garden: Its Pets and Its PleasuresJ. Nisbet, 1863 - 176 pages |
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Page 109 - A SPIRIT haunts the year's last hours Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers : To himself he talks; For at eventide, listening earnestly, At his work you may hear him sob and sigh In the walks; Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the mouldering flowers : Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily.
Page 31 - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly Tree ? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Order'd by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear.
Page 18 - Was richly tinged, and a deep radiance lay Full on the ancient ivy, which usurps Those fronting elms, and now with blackest mass Makes their dark branches gleam a lighter hue Through the late twilight...
Page 167 - And now, within the city prison, In mist and chillness pent, With sudden upward look they listen For sounds of past content — For lapse of water, swell of breeze, Or nut-fruit falling from the trees.
Page 12 - ... for Angling was, after tedious study, ' a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness ; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.
Page 171 - And because he loves me so, Better than his kind will do Often man or woman, Give I back more love again Than dogs often take of men, Leaning from my Human.
Page 21 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow. At evening a keen eastern breeze arose ; And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Page ii - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
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Page 168 - Of scenes that used to bless, For no regret, but present song And lasting thankfulness, And very soon to break away, Like types, in purer things than the}'.