 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 pagine
...concluding lines of the first "division" are : — " The pine-tree drops its dead ; They are quiet under the sea. Overhead, overhead, Rushes life in...we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we Even so." CHAPTEE VI. BALLADS. IT may well be doubted if it be possible to write a genuine old-time ballad... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 pagine
...concluding lines of the first " division " are : — " The pine-tree drops its dead ; They are quiet under the sea. Overhead, overhead, Rushes life in...go And we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we Kvon so." CHAPTEE VI. BALLADS. IT may well be doubted if it be possible to write a genuine old-time... | |
 | George Meredith - 1897 - 280 pagine
...it shivers through; The breast of us a sounded shell, The blood of us a lighted dew. DIRGE IN WOODS A WIND sways the pines, And below Not a breath of...we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so. CHANGE EN' RECURRENCE I STOOD at the gate of the cot Where my darling, with side-glance demure,... | |
 | George Meredith - 1898 - 252 pagine
...the woodland's heart ! That gives Battle to us, this Give we it, and good the kiss. DIRGE IN WOODS A wind sways the pines, And below Not a breath of...we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so. A FAITH ON TRIAL On the morning of May, Ere the children had entered my gate With their wreaths... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight - 1900 - 328 pagine
...sqleaps; the inmost bird is startled to ac From silence into silence thing's i-nove. DIRGE I 1ST WO A WIND sways the pines, And below Not a. breath, of wild air ; Still as the mosses that gjc On the flooring and overt} Of tHe roots here and ther<= The oine-tree drops its c7e^ They are quiet,... | |
 | Alfred H. Hyatt - 1901 - 366 pagine
...Surely they tell of coming Winter. George Meredith sings of this season in his " Dirge in Woods " — " A wind sways the pines, And below Not a breath of...roots here and there, The pine-tree drops its dead." This is, too, the season of mosses. How tenderly Ruskin speaks of them : " Meek creatures ! The first... | |
 | Alfred H. Hyatt - 1901 - 352 pagine
...Surely they tell of coming Winter. George Meredith sings of this season in his " Dirge in Woods " — " A wind sways the pines, And below Not a breath of...roots here and there, The pine-tree drops its dead." This is, too, the season of mosses. How tenderly Ruskin speaks of them : " Meek creatures ! The first... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 pagine
...thought, some careless rhyme, Still floats above the wrecks of Time. GEORGE MEREDITH. DIRGE IN WOODS A wind sways the pines, And below Not a breath of...we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so. AUBREY DE VERB. SAD IS OUR YOUTH Sad is our youth, for it is ever going, Crumbling away beneath... | |
 | 1905 - 726 pagine
...Thunders of laughter, clearing air and heart. A READING OF EARTH. iSSE. GEORGE MEREDITH. DIRGE IN WOODS. A wind sways the pines, And below Not a breath of...the clouds chase ; And we go, And we drop like the fruit: of the tree, Even we, Even so. 1892. GEORGE MEREDITH. NIGHT OF FKOST IN MAY. WITH splendour... | |
 | Bert Leston Taylor - 1906 - 442 pagine
...and held out his arms, she would have made the leap. Instead, he passed to another page, and read: " 'A wind sways the pines, And below Not a breath of...we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so.' " He misinterpreted her deep-drawn breath. The moment of passion had spent itself, the danger... | |
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DIRGE IN WOODS A WIND sways the pines, And below Not a breath of wild air; Still as the mosses that glow On the flooring and over the lines Of the roots here and there. The pine-tree drops its dead ; They are quiet, as under the sea. 
