 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And o'er it softly her warm ear lays ": Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life may... | |
 | Joseph Edward Adams Smith - Berkshire (Mass. : County) - 1852 - 238 pages
...cattle, even where houses and barns, seemed as much in exuberant enjoyment of the day as ourselves. " Every clod feels a stir of might, — An Instinct -within It that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul In grass and flowers ; The flash of life may... | |
 | Joseph Edward Adams Smith - Berkshire (Mass. : County) - 1852 - 230 pages
...cattle, even where houses and barns, seemed as much in exuberant enjoyment of the day as ourselves. " Every clod feels a stir of might,— An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flash of life may well... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1855 - 326 pages
...perfect days ; Then heaven tries the earth, if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look, or whether we listen. We hear life...An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if It be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Kvery clod feel;* a stir of might, An instinct within us that reaches and towers, And. gnuping blindly... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing, George William Curtis - Architecture, Domestic - 1856 - 650 pages
...the moss, lately grown green in the rain and sunshine of April. And, as Lowell has so finely said, " Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers ; And grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers." From the time when the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well be seen An instinct within it that... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - New Hampshire - 1859 - 438 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never... | |
 | Robert Morris Copeland - Agriculture - 1859 - 876 pages
...perfect days, Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly, her warm ear lays ; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...instinct within it, that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a*6oul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life may... | |
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels... 
