Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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Page ix
... things the woodcut man had pictured there . A tumble - down shed or two , a dumpcart , a few pinched and wintry trees , the litter of a back yard . That's all . There was snow on the roofs and snow on the cart . But those few lines ...
... things the woodcut man had pictured there . A tumble - down shed or two , a dumpcart , a few pinched and wintry trees , the litter of a back yard . That's all . There was snow on the roofs and snow on the cart . But those few lines ...
Page xi
... things that have to be built but things that just happen of their own accord , just as the brooks and the dandelions happen along in the right places . There were the clean cones of fir trees sharp as the morning light coming up behind ...
... things that have to be built but things that just happen of their own accord , just as the brooks and the dandelions happen along in the right places . There were the clean cones of fir trees sharp as the morning light coming up behind ...
Page xiv
... things right . It may take half of all the nights of a year , it may rob him of half a man's sleeping time . But he takes the time . Work is the center of his life . And he is happy only in that center . The rest of life is a mistake ...
... things right . It may take half of all the nights of a year , it may rob him of half a man's sleeping time . But he takes the time . Work is the center of his life . And he is happy only in that center . The rest of life is a mistake ...
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alive American thunderclouds angles artists autumn leaves baited barns beauty beneath Blake block blush boat brook brought Brushing bulge carpenter chewing City of Portland clouds color comes home COUNTRY CHURCHYARD cutting discovered J.J. Lankes door E'en e'er ELEGY WRITTEN Elizabethan elms England English eyes feather footprints Forbade frozen geniuses gingerbread Graved graveyards Gray Gray's ELEGY Hampden hands happen HARPER & BROTHERS Heav'n heave hired houses housewife immortal Italian J. J. Lankes J. J. Lankes's ladies leaf light lines look mediaeval missed modern American morning Negroes never o'er once pants paper pity and peace plowman poem Poetry printing press right places Robert Frost roofs ruin safely dead sculpture shed shirt sleeves shudder smiling snow soul stick take pains talk tear things thumb took trees TRISTRAM COFFIN Trying to live uncle village Virginian Williamsburg wintry wood woodcut wooden words yonder