Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . Geniuses are like mushrooms, they spring up, unstudied andunheeded, in all sorts of quiet unobserved places. 1 his wonderfulfamily of a Yorkshire rector, nurtured with a gloomy severity in alonely dull place, broke into blossom with the suddenness andlavishness of an Indian jungle. Their poetry does not equal theirpassionately earnest novels, but it still has a merit of its own. HOME. How brightly glistening in the sun The woodland ivy plays !While yonder bee
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . Geniuses are like mushrooms, they spring up, unstudied andunheeded, in all sorts of quiet unobserved places. 1 his wonderfulfamily of a Yorkshire rector, nurtured with a gloomy severity in alonely dull place, broke into blossom with the suddenness andlavishness of an Indian jungle. Their poetry does not equal theirpassionately earnest novels, but it still has a merit of its own. HOME. How brightly glistening in the sun The woodland ivy plays !While yonder beeches from their barks Reflect his silver rays. That sun surveys a lovely scene From softly smiling skies ;And wildly through unnumbered trees The wind of winter sighs : Now loud, it thunders oer my head, And now in distance give me back my barren hills Where colder breezes rise ; Where scarce the scattered stunted trees Can yield an answering swell,But where a wilderness of heath Returns the sound as well. For yonder garden, fair and wide, With groves of winding walks and borders trim, And velvet lawns betw
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