 | 1861 - 372 oldal
...natural : Before the Btont harvesters falleth the grain, As when the strong storm-wind is reaping tho plain, And loiters the boy in the briery lane; But yonder aslant comes tbe silvery rain, Like a long line of spears brightly burnished and tall ! Adown the white highway,... | |
 | 1852 - 620 oldal
...Sprinkles the bubbling pool," &c., is not more hearty and homely than Mr. Read's " Summer Shower." " Before the stout harvesters falleth the grain, As...silvery rain, Like a long line of spears brightly burnished and tall. " Adown the white highway, like cavalry fleet, It dashes the dust with its numberless... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 oldal
...Sprinkles the bubbling pool," &c., is not more hearty and homely than Mr. Read's " Summer Shower." " Before the stout harvesters falleth the grain, As...silvery rain, Like a long line of spears brightly burnished and tall. " Adown the white highway, like cavalry fleet, It dashes the du.-t with its numberless... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 oldal
...BEAD, a young American poet of great promise, is the author of this charming bit of landscape. BEFOBE the stout harvesters falleth the grain, As when the...silvery rain, Like a long line of spears brightly burnished and tall. Adown the white highway, like cavalry fleet, It dashes the dust with its numberless... | |
 | 1855 - 784 oldal
...is not often framed by a new hand, even though word-painting be the bent of your young poets : — Before the stout harvesters falleth the grain, As...a long line of spears brightly burnish'd and tall. Adovm the white highway, like cavalry fleet, It dashes the dust with its numberless feet; Like a murmurless... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 590 oldal
...all seen just such delightful rains : — "THE SUMMER SHOWER. "Before the stout harvesters fnlleth the grain, As when the strong storm-wind is reaping...lane ; But yonder aslant comes the silvery rain, Like д long line of spears brightly burnish'd and tall. " Adown the white highway, like cavalry fleet.... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 oldal
...often framed by a new hand, even though word-painting be the bent of your young poets : — Bitore the stout harvesters falleth the grain, As when the...the plain ; And loiters the boy in the briery lane ; Bat yonder aslant comes the silvery rain, Like a long Une of spears brightly burnish'd and tall.... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - 1855 - 408 oldal
...BEFORE the stout harvesters fallcth the grain, As when the strong storm-wind is reaping the plain j And loiters the boy in the briery lane; But yonder...silvery rain, Like a long line of spears brightly burnished and tall. Adown the white highway, like cavalry fleet, It dashes the dust with its numberless... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 632 oldal
...to the heart of the world ; we have all seen just such delightful rains : — "THE SUMMER SHOWER. " Before the stout harvesters falleth the grain, As when the strong storm-wind is reaping the ¡'liin ; And loiters the boy in the briery lane : But yonder aslant comes the silvery rain, Like a... | |
 | 1854 - 748 oldal
...British quotes with high encomiums his " Summer Shower," the first verse of which ends with the lines, " But yonder aslant comes the silvery rain. Like a long line of spears brightly burnished and tall." We might ask with equal justice, " what in the world" has a "long line of spears"... | |
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BEFORE the stout harvesters falleth the grain, As when the strong storm-wind is reaping the plain ; And loiters the boy in the briery lane ; But yonder aslant comes the silvery rain, Like a long line of spears brightly burnished and tall. Adown the white... 
