Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . us aspects of the authors love of nature is not that bredin the town, through long deprivation of itsrefreshment. She has the intimate acquaint-ance with it which does not deal in generalities, but lingers withdiscerning affection over the beauties of certain flowers and way-side bushes, of elusive changes in the sky, of the impalpable essencesof natural things felt rather than seen even with the inner eye. This friendly love for the outside world informs many of her mostbeautiful poems. The volumes entitled < Lyrics a
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . us aspects of the authors love of nature is not that bredin the town, through long deprivation of itsrefreshment. She has the intimate acquaint-ance with it which does not deal in generalities, but lingers withdiscerning affection over the beauties of certain flowers and way-side bushes, of elusive changes in the sky, of the impalpable essencesof natural things felt rather than seen even with the inner eye. This friendly love for the outside world informs many of her mostbeautiful poems. The volumes entitled < Lyrics and Sonnets,* <AWinter Swallow,* < Fair Shadow Land.* <A New-Years Masque,* con-tain not a few of these poems of the sky and earth. In one of ;Half Sight and Whole Sight,* she expresses the spirit in which sheherself looks upon the God-made world: — Thou beholdest, indeed, .some mystical intimate beckoningOut of the llowers honeyed heart, that passeth our reckoning;Yet when hast thou seen, or shalt .see,With the eye of yon hovering bee?».
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