I lay in my hammock : the air was heavy And hot and threat'ning ; the very heaven Was holding its breath ; and bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch ; and birds were driven In clouds to the rocks in a hurried whirr As I peer'd down by the path for her ;... Songs of the sierras, by Joaquin Miller - Stran ivavtor: Cincinnatus Hiner Miller - 1871Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1872 - 802 strani
...there were giants in the land." The next passage gives the description of a storm in a Mexican Canyon : "I lay in my hammock ; the air was heavy And hot and threatening; the very heaven Was holding its breath ; and bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch ; and... | |
| 1871 - 868 strani
...sullenly at the river-side ; the gold-digger seeks his cabin. Then follows this fine storm scene : I lay in my hammock : the air was heavy And hot and...heaven Was holding its breath ; and bees in a bevy Hid ander my thatch ; and birds were driven In clouds to the rocks in a hurried whirr As I peer'd down... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1872 - 814 strani
...were giants in the land." The next passage gives the description of a storm in a Mexican Canyon : " I lay in my hammock ; the air was heavy And hot and threatening; the very ' heaven Was holding its breath ; and bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch; and... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1872 - 732 strani
...were giants in the land." The next passage gives the description of a storm in a Mexican Canyon : " I lay in my hammock ; the air was heavy And hot and threatening; the very heaven Was holding its breath ; and bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch ; and... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 strani
...Bent and beautiful as a river-moss. Then, smitten, it turned, bent, broken, and doubled, And licked, red-tongued, like a forked fire, And sank, and the...I lay in my hammock. The air was heavy And hot and threatening ; the very heaven Was holding its breath ; and bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch ; and... | |
| 1873 - 658 strani
...this of a storm one of the most truly poetical of all his descriptions, is too fine to leave out : " I lay in my hammock : the air was heavy And hot and threat'ning : the very heaven Was holding its broatli ; and bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch; and birds were driven In clouds to the rocks in a... | |
| Joaquin Miller - 1873 - 286 strani
...breaking, which occurs very early in the volume, is ouough to show the presence of no common power : — "I lay in my hammock : the air was heavy And hot, and threatening ; the very heaven Was holding its breath; and bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch; and birds... | |
| Joaquin Miller - 1875 - 218 strani
...breaking, which occurs very early in the volume, is enough to show the presence of no common power : — " I lay in my hammock : the air was heavy And hot, and threatening; the very heaven Was holding its breath ; and bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch; and birds... | |
| American poems - 1878 - 536 strani
...Bent and beautiful as a river-moss. Then, smitten, it turned, bent, broken, and doubled, And licked, red-tongued, like a forked fire, And sank, and the...I lay in my hammock. The air was heavy And hot and threatening ; the very heaven Was holding its breath ; and bees- in a bevy Hid under my thatch ; and... | |
| Joaquin Miller - 1902 - 396 strani
...lick'd, red-tongued, like a forked fire, Then sank and the troubled waters bubbled And so swept on in the old swift fashion. "I lay in my hammock: the air was...bees in a bevy Hid under my thatch; and birds were "She stood like a bronze bent over the river, The proud eyes fir'd, the passion unspoken. Then the... | |
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