This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...woods Darkling below her hid the timid broods Of deer and cattle, fearing that blind storm The North wind drives; the hare croucht in her form, Lest this were eaglet sweeping woodsides bare Of those shy things that leap and nibble there. Heedless of them she wings above the brake, Over the open moorlands, by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...woods Darkling below her hid the timid broods Of deer and cattle, fearing that blind storm The North wind drives; the hare croucht in her form, Lest this were eaglet sweeping woodsides bare Of those shy things that leap and nibble there. Heedless of them she wings above the brake, Over the open moorlands, by the lake Solemn and deep in shade: the white-faced coots Huddle together, watching where she shoots Starlike across the pool of cold green sky That mirrors them and is their canopy And utmost dream. But when the sable dark Fell, she flew lower, as above the park The white owl softly courses; as he cries His long lone cry, so she, and swept her eyes Free of her clinging hair, and tiptoe stood Peering upon the black edge of a wood Where the dim sides ran back between the stems And shelving branches of the firs. (In dreams Oft have I been there with her, mystic, dark, With sombre eyes and finger warning--' Hark! 'Listen and watch; you have all that you pray: 'Divine my heart-beats, read the thing they say. 'See now, I tremble!' Her cheeks and pale mute lips Come near--I look, and hear above the drips Of winter rain her heart's quick answers fall, Speaking her soul!) Out of the wood a call Borne on a little sighing wind came far, Voicing again her urgency: (a star Fitful and low went wandering out and in I The velvet dark, and all the tree-tops thin Seem'd beaten by a sudden breeze, and bent Their plumy heads.J And as it came and went It grew apace until it steept the night As with shed effluence from a veiled light Diffuse and glowing. Nearer and more near The wood's recesses open'd, sharp and clear The little tree-trunks stood, and every blade Of grass and each fern tendril cast a shade Of pitchy night. But down the tunnel'd flare, Lovely, with...
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Add this copy of Artemision, Idylls and Songs; to cart. $37.63, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Wentworth Press.
Add this copy of Artemision, Idylls and Songs to cart. $52.22, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
