 | Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 pages
...autumn woods." Contrast the following, one of the best of his descriptions, with " Thanatopsis :" — " And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then if ever...come perfect days, Then Heaven tries the Earth if it he in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life... | |
 | Adeline Dutton Train Whitney - Adoption - 1863 - 356 pages
...little dipperfull of drops that may be drawn out from among them ? CHAPTEE XIV. A DBIVE WITH THE DOCTOB. "And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then heaven tries the carth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm car lays." LOWELL. " All lives have their prose... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...'Joyous' example for ' pur equality' and happy 'median stret*. " And what is so rare as a day in .Tune ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tone, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur,... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - History - 1864 - 422 pages
...jewels of fine gold." It was a perfect day of June. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then,'if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth...An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The cowslip startles in... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1864 - 942 pages
...pushing its animate and builded receptacles up to the level of vegetation, creates the world of plants. " Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within...it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly abovo it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers." On the level of sensation, where the obscure... | |
 | Adeline Dutton Train Whitney - 1864 - 364 pages
...little dipperfull of drops that may be drawn out from among them ? CHAPTER XFV. A DRIVE WITH THE DOCTOR. "And what is so rare as a day In June? Then, If ever, eome perfeet days ; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tone, And over it softly her warm ear lays."... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1864 - 1058 pages
...pushing its animate and builded receptacles up to the level of vegetation, creates the world of plants. " Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that iv;irlu>s unil towera, And, grasping blindly above it fur Ik-lit, Climbs to u soul in gnu>s and flu\\.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...To crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. The Music- Grinders. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. The Vision of Sir Launfal. This child is not mine as the first was, I caunot sing it to rest, I caunot... | |
 | Missions - 1865 - 804 pages
...peace and joy, or sorrow and dull care, and force from us ever new expressions of delight ] " And what so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then heaven tries earth, if it be in time, And over it, softly, her warm ear lays. Whether we look or whether we listen,... | |
 | Children's literature - 1871 - 868 pages
...expressed in English print Claire D . — The "author of a piece of poetry commencing — 1 What is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days,' " is James Russell Lowell, and the lines occur near the beginning of " The Vision of Sir Launfat."... | |
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels... 
