 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...him, II. The crows flapped over by twos and threes, In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees, The little birds sang as if it were The one day of...landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray; 'T was the proudest hall in the North Countree, And never its gates might opened be, Save to lord or... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 46 pages
...over by twos and threes, In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees, The little birds sang las if it were The one day of summer in all the year,...landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray; 'T was the proudest hall in the North Countree, And never its gates might opened be, Save to lord or... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...summer in all the year it wears the same aspect as Lowell describes the house of Sir Launfal : — " The castle alone in the landscape lay, Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray ; "Twas the proudest hall in the north countree, And never its gates might opened be, Save to lord... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...vision flew. The crows flapped over by twos and threes, In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their I The little birds sang as if it were The one day of...landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray ; 'Twas the proudest hall in the North Countree, And never its gates might opened be, Save to lord... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...fell like a cloud on him, And into his soul the vision flew. Slowly Sir Launfal's eyes grew dim. ii. The castle alone in the landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray; 'Twas the proudest hall in the North Countree, And never its gates might opened be, Save to lord or... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1861 - 44 pages
...flew. IT The crows flapped over by twos and threes, In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees, The little birds sang as if it were The one day of...castle alone in the landscape lay Like an outpost of whiter, dull and gray ; 'T was the proudest hall in the North Countree, And never its gates might opened... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...flew. The crows flapped over by twos and threes, In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees, The little birds sang as if it were The one day of...on the trees The castle alone in the landscape lay 'Twas the proudest hall in the North Countree, Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray ; And never... | |
 | Timothy Titcomb - Conduct of life - 1863 - 354 pages
...neighborhood, and seems as thoroughly barred against neighborly approach, as that of Sir Launfal, that " Alone in the landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray." Your fences are high ; your screens are broad ; and behind these you sit, and self-complacently make... | |
 | Marietta Holley - 1864 - 352 pages
...neighborhood, and seems as thoroughly barred against neighborly approach, as that of Sir Launfal, that " Alone in the landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray." Your fences are high ; your screens are broad ; and behind these you sit, and self-complacently make... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1866 - 68 pages
...flew. II The crows flapped over by twos and threes, In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees, The little birds sang as if it were The one day of...landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray; 'T was the proudest hall in the North Countree, And never its gates might opened be, Save to lord or... | |
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The little birds sang as if it were The one day of summer in all the year, And the very leaves seemed to sing on the trees : The castle alone in the landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray... 
