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" WE knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens, — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the... "
Selections from Various Sources - Page 83
by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 240 pages
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 9

1857 - 700 pages
...would rain, for all the morn, A spirit, on slender ropes of mist, Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and...amber grain Shrunk in the wind — and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain ! 1857.] THE FOUR SEASONS. OUR fathers of old — pagans...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 25

1857 - 528 pages
...would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes, and swamps, and...amber grain Shrunk in the wind — and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain ! A vein of pleasant sarcasm runs through our next specimen....
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 9

1857 - 692 pages
...would rain, for all the morn, A spirit, on slender ropes of mist, Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and...poplars showed The white of their leaves — the amber groin Shrunk in the wind — and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain ! 1857.]...
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Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art ..., Volume 9

1857 - 716 pages
...would rain, for all the morn, A spirit, on slender ropes of mist, Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew thntluy in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 34

1874 - 792 pages
...sweetmeats from his head, And stood, — a hideous pagan cut in jet.'T Or yet of the following: — n We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leavefl, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind, — and the lightning now la tangled in tremulous akeios...
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Jottings of a Year's Sojourn in the South: Or, First Impressions of the ...

A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 pages
...rain, for all the morn, A spirit, on slender ropes of mist, Was lowering its golden buckets down • Into the vapory amethyst, Of marshes, and swamps,...the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers." ALDKICH. I love to sit by my window and look out into this fine shower of rain. We have had a series...
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Analytical Fifth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pages
...spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethysts. 2. Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens, — Scooping the dew that lay on the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers. 8. We...
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Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethysts 2. Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens,— Scooping the dew that lay on the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers. 3. We...
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 8

1874 - 808 pages
...would rain, for all the mom, A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and...amber grain Shrunk in the wind, — and the lightning now i Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain ! I This is the genuine poetry that seems not like art,...
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 8

1874 - 780 pages
...would rain, for all the mom, A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and...amber grain Shrunk in the wind, — and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain ! This is the genuine poetry that seems not like art, it...
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