Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I ; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit,... Scribners Monthly - Page 3651872Full view - About this book
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 292 pages
...many a day with measures full of sadness ! — William Motherwell. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast...down the beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud, black and swift, across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
| Celia Thaxter - 1872 - 96 pages
...They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1872 - 542 pages
...the new moon's thread of silver pale. With the first star, thou comest o'er the deep 1 THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit,— One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like siicut ghosts in misty... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...long way that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. WILLIAM C. BRYANT. THE SANDPIPER. A CROSS the narrow beach we flit, •^•*- One little sandpiper...down the beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud, black and swift, across- the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
| Child life - 1874 - 300 pages
...many a day with measures full of sadness ! — William Mothenoell. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast...down the beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud, black and swift, across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
| Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 382 pages
...verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail ! MATTHRW ARNOLD. THE SAND-PIPER. A CROSS the narrow beach we flit, -**- One little sand-piper...for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As upland down the beach we flit, — One little sand-piper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud... | |
| Celia Thaxter - 1874 - 206 pages
...shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death. •KH-E SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood bleached and d The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high. As up and down... | |
| Edward Austin Sheldon - 1875 - 446 pages
...mammal, and is called, at the West, a ground hog. SHELDON'S FIFTH READER. II. — THE SANDPIPER. A CROSS the narrow beach, we flit, — -*--*- One little sandpiper...hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, 2. Above our heads, the sullen clouds Scud, black and swift, across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...and rivers fair, — Nature is always wise in every part. EDWARD HOVEL (LORD THURLOW). THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky : Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
| John Burroughs - 1877 - 278 pages
...Mrs. Thaxter's poem is as much for the dweller inland as the dweller upon the coast. THE SANDPIPER. Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper...the beach we flit, — One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty... | |
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