God made a little Gentian It tried - to be a Rose And failed - and all the Summer laughed But just before the Snows There rose a Purple Creature That ravished all the Hill And Summer hid her Forehead And Mockery - was still The Frosts were her condition... The Works of Henry Van Dyke - Sida 86efter Henry Van Dyke - 1920Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Henry Van Dyke - 1900 - 294 sidor
...even then it seems as if the table of beauty had been spread for the joy of a higher visitor, and in obedience to secret orders which you have not heard. Have you ever found the fringed gentian ? " Jnst before the snows, There came a purple creature That lavished all the kill ; And summer hid... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 sidor
...failed, and all the summer laughed: But just before the snows There came a purple creature That ravished all the hill; And summer hid her forehead, And mockery was still. The frusta were her condition; The Tyrian would not come Until the North evoked it: — " Creator I shall... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - 1901 - 294 sidor
...even then it seems as if the table of beauty had been spread for the joy of a higher visitor, and in obedience to secret orders which you have not heard....the hill ; And summer hid her forehead, And mockery via still. The frosts were her condition : The Tyrian would not come Until the North evoked her, —... | |
| Emily Dickinson - 1901 - 244 sidor
...failed, and all the summer laughed. But just before the snows There came a purple creature That ravished all the hill ; And summer hid her forehead, And mockery was still. The frosts were her condition ; The 1'yrian would not come Until the North evoked it. " Creator! shall I bloom?" XL1X. NOVEMBER. PRESIDES... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - 1905 - 326 sidor
...even then it seems as if the table of beauty had been spread for the joy of a higher visitor, and in obedience to secret orders which you have not heard....mockery was still. The frosts were her condition: The Tynan would not come Until the North evoked her, — 'Creator, shall I bloom?'" There are strange freaks... | |
| 1918 - 426 sidor
...poem forces another opinion : "But just b'fore the snows There came a purple creaturcThat ravished all the hill: And summer hid her forehead, And mockery was still. The frosts (?) her condition The Tyrian would not come Until the North evoked it ' ' ' Creator ! Shall I bloom... | |
| Lois Lowry - 1977 - 191 sidor
...failed, and all the summer laughed: but just before the snows there came a purple creature that ravished all the hill; and summer hid her forehead, and mockery was still.' " "Will," I said, as we turned to leave the woods, "you should have been a poet." He laughed. "A truck... | |
| Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 sidor
...failed - and all the Summer laughed But just before the Snows There rose a Purple Creature That ravished all the Hill And Summer hid her Forehead — And Mockery - was still The Frosts were her condition The Tynan would not come Until the North - invoke it Creator - Shall I - bloom? 1 86 / am alive - I guess... | |
| Adam W. Sweeting - 2003 - 214 sidor
...failed - and all the Summer laughed But just before the Snows There rose a Purple Creature That ravished all the Hill And Summer hid her Forehead And Mockery...condition The Tyrian would not come Until the North - invoke it Creator - Shall I - bloom? (F 5 20) The imagery recalls Bryant's lines, but Dickinson draws... | |
| Judith Farr, Louise Carter - 2004 - 372 sidor
...all the Summer laughed — But just before the Snows There rose a Purple Creature — That ravished all the Hill And Summer hid her Forehead — And Mockery...was still — The Frosts were her condition — The Tvrian would not come j Until the North - invoke it — Creator — Shall I — bloom? (F j2o) Emily... | |
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