 WE knew it would rain, for all the morn, A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 3711857Full view - About this book
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...unavailing 'Mid the spirits that have passed beyond the BEFORE THE RAIN. THOMAS BAILEY ALDKICH. We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender...marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dens that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1893 - 700 pages
...yonder, all in saintly guise, As 'twere, a sweet dead woman lies Upon the trestles ! BEFORE THE RAIN. WE knew it would rain, for all the morn, A spirit on...marshes, and swamps, and dismal fens, — Scooping the clew that lay in' the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning. BEFORE AND AFTER THE RAIN.' WE knew It would rein, for all the morn, A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering lia goldeu buckete down Into the vapory ametbyet Of marshes and swamps and dUmal fens,— Scooping... | |
 | Mildred Cabell Watkins - American literature - 1894 - 232 pages
...soldier's brow. From Aldrich. Hypatia — ah, what lovely things Are fashioned out of eighteen springs ! We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender...the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers. Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States - Readers - 1894 - 400 pages
...am'-ber, yellowish like amber ; bernfieinfarbig. skein, a number of threads ; Sirafyn; Strang. 1. We knew it would rain, for, all the morn, A spirit on...Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethysts. 2. Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens, — Scooping the dew that lay on the flowers,... | |
 | Mormons - 1894 - 646 pages
...says, "of equal honor with him who writes the grand poem, is he who reads it grandly." FHW THE RAIN. We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender robes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1899 - 642 pages
...I must give you an extract from Aldrich, who has written some exceedingly dainty things : — " We knew it would rain ; for all the morn A spirit on...the sea To sprinkle them over the land in showers." It is the sunshine, then, that makes the rain. You will get a suggestion from that perhaps by and by.... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1897 - 224 pages
...maids; Brief as thy lyrics, Herrick, are, And polished as the bosom of a star. 35 BEFORE THE RAIN WE knew it would rain, for all the morn, A spirit on...the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To scatter them over the land in showers. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1897 - 468 pages
...maids ; Brief as thy lyrics, Herrick, are, And polished as the bosom of a star. BEFORE THE RAIN WE knew it would rain, for all the morn, A spirit on...the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To scatter them over the land in showers. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their... | |
 | English poetry - 1898 - 344 pages
...saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. — Bayard Taylor. BEFORE THE RAIN. WE knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender...swamps and dismal fens, Scooping the dew that lay on the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers. We knew... | |
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