IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense, of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass... Dorothy Wordsworth; the Story of a Sister's Love - Page 48by Edmund Lee - 1887 - 226 pagesFull view - About this book
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...finished, and the return of spring gave fresh vigour to his powers. ' It is the first mild day of March,1 Each minute sweeter than before ; The red-breast sings...from the tall larch That stands beside our door.' A joyous invitation to his sister to taste the delights of the season was now composed, and also the... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Analogy (Religion) - 1852 - 478 pages
...The Time of Seeds, and the Texts taken from it — Responsibilities arising from the Light of Nature. IT is the first mild day of March, each minute sweeter than before ! Such is the carol of an English Poet, descriptive of the opening of Spring, in an Island where the... | |
| Arts - 1852 - 436 pages
...perusal of his poetic effusion on that occasion : — It is thejint mild day of March; Each Minnie sweeter than before: The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands besido our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees,... | |
| Christianity - 1853 - 522 pages
...described by one who understoood inanimate nature much better than any of the editors of Shakspeare:— ' It is the first mild day of March, Each minute sweeter...stands beside our door, There is a blessing in the air, To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green field.' Which seems a sense of joy to... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...the terror of mariners. March winds are boisterous and vehement to a proverb. THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH. It is the first mild day of March, Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sing from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air Which seems a... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...the terror of mariners. March winds are boisterous and vehement to a proverb. THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH. It is the first mild day of March, Each minute sweeter than before, There is a blessing in the air Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains... | |
| 1855 - 784 pages
...Bull's toes," &c., is jumbled with a poem of Wordsworth's — It is the first mild day of March, Eacli minute sweeter than before. The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands before our door," — which we must have seen in the Penny Magazine. In all this there is probably... | |
| 1864 - 492 pages
...for much of his poetic inspiration, the stir of his heart, and the excitement of his emotions : — " It is the first mild day of March, Each minute sweeter...That stands beside our door. " There is a blessing in tho air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the... | |
| William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...SMALL DISTANCE FROM MY HOUSE, AND SENT RY MY LITTLE ROY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY WERE ADDRESSED. IT is the first mild day of March, Each minute sweeter than before ; The redbreast sings from tho tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of... | |
| D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...Providence has no more eminent seat than the wisdom of the heart. HENRY TAYLOR. It is the first fine day of March ; Each minute sweeter than before ; The redbreast sings from the tall larch That grows beside our door. Love now, an universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to... | |
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