Nature and Elements

When I behold, upon the night’s starred face

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

’Mid hushed, cool-rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed,

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!

She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,

Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight.

‘For cruel ’tis,’ said she,

In drear nighted December

Trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

St Agnes’ Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.

Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

When I observed he was a fine cat, saying,

Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of ‘The Natural History of Iceland’, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:—‘ CHAP. Lxxii. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.’

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.