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" Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its... "
Young Lochinvar; or, the romance of real life - Page 217
by Lochinvar (fict.name.) - 1882
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Selections and Essays

John Ruskin - English essays - 1918 - 454 pages
...blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots...the stone; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years. THE BIRD AND THE SERPENT [Queen...
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An Old Castle and Other Essays

Caleb Thomas Winchester - English literature - 1922 - 430 pages
...blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots...the stone; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years,1 Ruskin's manner changed, about...
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A Summer in Greenland

A. C. Seward - History - 1922 - 158 pages
...Greenland; one is reminded of Ruskin's description: Far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen spots rest, star-like, on the stone: and the gathering orange stain, upon the edge of yonder peak, reflects the sunsets of a thousand years — To them, slow-fingered, constanthearted,...
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Representative English Essays

Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 532 pages
...blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots...the stone; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years. B. THE OPEN SKY1 It is a strange...
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The Outline of Literature, Volume 3

John Drinkwater - Literature - 1927 - 604 pages
...also its endurance; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthornblossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone;...
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Representative English Essays

Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 524 pages
...also its endurance; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, —far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, star-like, on the stone;...
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Essays of the Past and Present

Warner Taylor - American essays - 1927 - 668 pages
...also its endurance; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone;...
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Humanistic Studies, Volume 3

University of Iowa - Philology - 1928 - 760 pages
...also its endurance; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorne blossoms like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow...cowslip gold, far above among the mountains the silver lichen rests starlike on the stone, and the gathering orange upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects...
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Lichens of North America

Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff, Canadian Museum of Nature - Nature - 2001 - 838 pages
...also its endurance; ami while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossoms like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold—far above, among the mountains the silver lichen-spots rest, star-like, on the stone,...
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