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... enormous beech - tree ( and there are very many in this fine park ) , spreading its widely extended branches which were clothed with their early and glittering leaves , while the sight B 2 WINDSOR GREAT PARK . 9 Windsor Great Park Ravens.
... enormous beech - tree ( and there are very many in this fine park ) , spreading its widely extended branches which were clothed with their early and glittering leaves , while the sight B 2 WINDSOR GREAT PARK . 9 Windsor Great Park Ravens.
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With Recollections of Natural History Edward Jesse. with their early and glittering leaves , while the sight of some sturdy old oak pollards , covered with ivy , from which The stock - dove only through the forest cones Mournfully hoarse ...
With Recollections of Natural History Edward Jesse. with their early and glittering leaves , while the sight of some sturdy old oak pollards , covered with ivy , from which The stock - dove only through the forest cones Mournfully hoarse ...
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... leaves Without , to rest in this embowering shade , And mark the green fly , circling to and fro , O'er the still water , with his dragon wings Shooting from bank to bank , now in quick turns , Then swift athwart , as is the gazer's ...
... leaves Without , to rest in this embowering shade , And mark the green fly , circling to and fro , O'er the still water , with his dragon wings Shooting from bank to bank , now in quick turns , Then swift athwart , as is the gazer's ...
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... leaves , they are the richest ornament of the wood . The holly loves to nestle under the shelter of its graceful pendulous branches , affording a contrast to its smooth white trunk , on which here and there some pretty lichen may be ...
... leaves , they are the richest ornament of the wood . The holly loves to nestle under the shelter of its graceful pendulous branches , affording a contrast to its smooth white trunk , on which here and there some pretty lichen may be ...
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... leaves are indeed green , but not of that delicate green we see in the spring . A slight tinge of brown may be perceived along the margin of the leaf , which is otherwise smooth and sparkling . The large red fungus may be seen under its ...
... leaves are indeed green , but not of that delicate green we see in the spring . A slight tinge of brown may be perceived along the margin of the leaf , which is otherwise smooth and sparkling . The large red fungus may be seen under its ...
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Page 48 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page 288 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 172 - Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects
Page 88 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Page 100 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 19 - 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...
Page 240 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 238 - O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
Page 247 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 243 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my State with kings.