Animal RomancesSherratt & Hughes, 1908 - 206 σελίδες |
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acacias amongst animals antelope bark basking beaks beast beetles birds blue blue wildebeest body branches buffalo bushes butterflies Cape wagtail carcase carnivora clouds coats colour comrades creatures crimson dark dart deer dotted elephants emerald eyes feeding flapping flies flit float flock flowers forest francolin gerenuk giant giraffe gleaming glistening glittering glossy glowing golden grass green grey grey seal ground grunting gum trees head herbage herd hide hippopotamus horns HOUNDS OF DEATH huge hyænas jackals leaping mist mountain musk ox muzzle Natural History Essays neck nightjar pallah party penguin perch plumage purple reeds rhinoceros rises rocks sable sable antelope sand sand grouse shadow shining silent silvery slopes slowly smilodon snow snow bunting splashes stands STANLEY CRANE strides sturdy sudden Suddenly sunshine supple surface swamp swarm swaying tails tall thylacine tiny troop trunk tusks veldt waterbuck waves wild wings yellow zebra
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Σελίδα 119 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Σελίδα 13 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Σελίδα 46 - There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Σελίδα 3 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Σελίδα 144 - NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.
Σελίδα 175 - Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Σελίδα 59 - Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Σελίδα 168 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee; But, oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
Σελίδα 43 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air : And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a wrack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Σελίδα 103 - All these he saw; but what he fain had seen He could not see, the kindly human face, Nor ever hear a kindly voice, but heard The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, The league-long roller thundering on the reef...