And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5281851Full view - About this book
| John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...; ( ! ) Thrilling back over hills and valleys The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice ; And there's never...blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace." If we turn the page, in the same Vision of Sir Launfal, to the picture of the grim old castle, which... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 pages
...startles in meadows green, 45 The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice ; And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, 50 And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
| American Horticultural Society - 1883 - 322 pages
...new life-long friends will be yours that will be well worth knowing. "And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
| American Horticultural Society - 1883 - 326 pages
...new life-long frionds will be yours that will be well worth knowing. "And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
| 1883 - 270 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace : The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
| Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 pages
...reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, A tilt like a blossom among the leaves, ttjid iets his illumined being o'erruu With the deluge of summer it receives. Noble Ideas. JR Lowell.... | |
| Anna Bartlett Warner - 1884 - 108 pages
...colour, beautified with form, full of hidden wealth and untold forces ; and yet through all : ' With never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace.' Like that I would wish my life to be, — with all least things, as all greater ones, doing their sweet... | |
| James Edward Murdoch - 1884 - 510 pages
...buttercup catches the sun in its chalice. And there 's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be -imc happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun \\ith the deluge of summer... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atiltlike a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
| 1885 - 504 pages
...in the forest primeval, in the happy shining weather, we were constantly proving that there was "Not a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace." If we waxed sentimental, something must be forgiven the lavish summer. At the hotel, the bountiful... | |
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