 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 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, The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1875 - 44 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...stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and tower* And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1876 - 450 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear laysjy 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 - History - 1876 - 276 pages
...by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June ? 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 ; Th*e flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1876 - 454 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... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 294 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 - 1876 - 434 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 Madison Watson - Readers - 1876 - 484 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it s6ftly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...for light* Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers. 5. The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) - 1876 - 446 pages
...come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in time, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Clii ii i ii to a soul in grass and flowers; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 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... | |
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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... 
