 Or change their perch on a beat of quivering wings From branch to branch, only restful to pipe and peck) Or, bristled, curl at a touch their snouts in a ball ; Or cast their web between bramble and thorny hook ; The good physician Melampus, loving them...  Poems by George Meredith - Pagina 121di George Meredith - 1906 - 467 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Sir Patrick Geddes - 1893 - 298 pagine
...For him the woods were a home and gave him the key Of knowledge, thirst for their treasures in kerbs and flowers. The secrets held by the creatures nearer...veined Division, veined parallel, of a blood that flinus In them, in us, from the source by man unattained, Save mark he well what the mystical woods... | |
 | Sir Patrick Geddes - 1893 - 226 pagine
...scenes to great. Were it worthy, it should be dedicated to the memory of Darwin. PATRICK GEDDES. 41 For him the woods were a home and gave him the key Of knowledge, thirst for their treasures in herds and flowers. The secrets held by the creatures nearer than we To earth he sought, and the link... | |
 | George Meredith - 1898 - 254 pagine
...hook; The good physician Melampus, loving them all, Among them walked, as a scholar who reads a book. For him the woods were a home and gave him the key...To earth he sought, and the link of their life with And where alike we are, unlike where, and the veined Division, veined parallel, of a blood that flows... | |
 | George Meredith - 1897 - 280 pagine
...hook; The good physician Melampus, loving them all, Among them walked, as a scholar who reads a book. n For him the woods were a home and gave him the key...earth he sought, and the link of their life with ours: 84 And where alike we are, unlike where, and the veined Division, veined parallel, of a blood that... | |
 | 1907 - 854 pagine
...are! The "good physician" Melampus I:*.-. y stand as the type of the perfect Nature-lover, for whom "the woods were a home, and gave him the key of Knowledge." But nature was not for him the misanthropical refuge of Byron's and IJousseau's savage dream, for we... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pagine
...between bramble and thorny hook ; The good physician Melampus, loving them all, Among them walk'd, as a scholar who reads a book. ii For him the woods...ours: And where alike we are, unlike where, and the vein'd Division, vein'd parallel, of a blood that flows In them, in us, from the source by man unattain'd... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1913 - 1048 pagine
...hook ; The good physician Melampus, loving them all, Among them walk'd, as a scholar who reads a book. For him the woods were a home and gave him the key...ours : And where alike we are, unlike where, and the vein'd Division, vein'd parallel, of a blood that flows In them, in us, from the source by man unattain'd... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 pagine
...hook ; The good physician Melampus, loving them all, Among them walk'd, as a scholar who reads a book. For him the woods were a home and gave him the key...ours : And where alike we are, unlike where, and the vein'd Division, vein'd parallel, of a blood that flows In them, in us, from the source by man unattain'd... | |
 | Sir Archibald Thomas Strong, Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 204 pagine
...hook ; The good physician Melampus, loving them all, Among them walked, as a scholar who reads a book. For him the woods were a home, and gave him the key...knowledge, thirst for their treasures in herbs and flowers. And where alike we are, unlike where, and the veined Division, veined parallel, of a blood that flows... | |
 | 1921 - 878 pagine
...That philosophy has grown up out of a loving study of Nature. Like his own "good physician Melampus," For him the woods were a home and gave him the key Of knowledge : and it is this that makes his best nature-poems the very sap of the forest. They call up all the... | |
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