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The rhyme and reason of country life

Name: The rhyme and reason of country life
Author: Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894 [Compiler]; Orr, John William, 1815-1887 [Engraver]; Doepler, Carl Emil, 1824-1905 [Illustrator]

作者：Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894 [Compiler]; Orr, John William, 1815-1887 [Engraver]; Doepler, Carl Emil, 1824-1905 [Illustrator]
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OF
COUNTRY LIFE.
G. P. PUTNAM & CO.,
BY
THE AUTHOR OF “RURAL HOURS,”
ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM AND COMPANY,
10 PARK PLACE.
ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1854, BY
G. P. PUTNAM & CO.,
TO
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
OF
ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS,
AND
TO THE
MEMORY OF HIS FRIEND,
ARE VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
BY
THE EDITOR.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION Page 13
INTRODUCTION.
THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF.
ARGUMENT.
TO THE BEES.
FROM THE GREEK OF ZONAS.
ON A BEE’S NEST.
FROM THE GREEK OF ANTIPHILUS.
THE BEE.
FROM THE GREEK OF NICIAS, 280 B. C.
MANAGEMENT OF BEES.
FROM THE FOURTH GEORGIC OF VIRGIL.
FROM SHAKSPEARE.
THE DRONE.
FROM “THE FEMININE MONARCHY, OR THE HISTORY OF BEES.”
CHARLES BUTLER, 1634.
MEMORY OF THE BEE.
THE DEATH OF THE BEE.
FROM “SALMONIA.”
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY.
SONNET.
THE RETURN OF SPRING IN GREECE.
FROM THE GREEK OF MELEAGER, 100 B. C.
SPRING.
FROM THE GREEK OF ANACREON.
DESCRIPTION OF SPRING.
SPRING.
FROM THE “THISTLE AND THE ROSE.”
ON SPRING.
SONNET ON SPRING.
FROM THE FRENCH.
SPRING, AT EASTER.
FROM “CHRIST’S TRIUMPH AND VICTORY.”
THE AIRS OF SPRING.
RETURN OF SPRING.
FROM THE FRENCH.
ODE TO SPRING.
THE FLOWER.
ODE.
FROM THE TURKISH.
TO SPRING.
TO SPRING.
FROM THE DANISH.
SPRING.
FROM THE GERMAN.
ODE.
FROM THE SPANISH.
THE AWAKENING YEAR.
SPRING SCENE.
SPRING.
FROM THE ITALIAN OF PETRARCH.
MORNING MELODIES.
MORNING WALK.
HYMN.
BEFORE SUNRISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI.
MORNING.
SPRING MORNING IN ITALY.
UP, AMARYLLIS!
SWEDISH.
THE MORNING WALK.
FROM THE DANISH.
DANISH MORNING SONG.
SUMMER MORNING SONG.
FROM THE DUTCH.
THE NOTE OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
A LETTER OF CHARLES JAMES FOX.
Yours affectionately, C. J. FOX
SONNET.
THE NIGHTINGALE.
APRIL, 1798.
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.
THE NIGHTINGALE.
FROM THE DUTCH.
THE NIGHTINGALE.
FROM THE PORTUGUESE.
THE MOTHER BIRD.
SIMILE FROM “DIVINA COMMEDIA.”
THE MOTHER NIGHTINGALE.
FROM THE SPANISH.
THE NIGHTINGALE.
FROM THE DUTCH.
NEST OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
THE NIGHTINGALE.
SONNET.
THE LARK.
FROM THE “COMPLETE ANGLER.”
IZAAK WALTON, 1593–1683.
TO THE SKYLARK.
A LARK SINGING IN A RAINBOW.
THE SKYLARK.
FROM “THE FARMER’S BOY.”
THE MOORS OF JUTLAND.
FROM THE DANISH.
THE RISING OF THE LARK.
JEREMY TAYLOR, 1613–1667.
THE LARK.
LARK.
LINES.
MAY MORNING.
SONG.
EMILIA ON MAY DAY.
FROM “PALAMON AND ARCITE.”
SALUTATION OF MAIA.
FROM THE “MASQUE OF THE PENATES.”
SONG
FROM THE GERMAN OF THE MINNESINGERS.
MAY.
FROM THE GERMAN MINNESINGERS.
SONG.
FROM “ANGLING REMINISCENCES.”
MAY.
ON A RURAL IMAGE OF PAN.
FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO.
PASTORAL SCENE FROM “THE ARCADIA.”
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, 1554–1586.
FROM THE “FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.”
THE SHEPHERD’S LIFE.
THE SHEPHERD’S ADDRESS TO HIS MUSE.
PHILLIDA AND CORYDON.[9]
SHEARING TIME.
FROM “THE FLEECE.”
A FAYRE AND HAPPY MILK-MAID.
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY, 1581–1613.
SHEEP-PASTURES.
THE SPINNER’S SONG.
SONG FOR THE SPINNING-WHEEL.
WURTHA.
TO MEADOWS.
FRENCH SONG.
FLOWERS.
JOHN GERARDE, 1545–1607.
SPRING-FLOWERS.
ARRANGEMENTS OF A BOUQUET.
HEART’S-EASE.
THE GARLAND.
TO PRIMROSES
FILLED WITH MORNING DEW.
TO THE NARCISSUS.
ECHO.
THE ROSE.
ANCIENT SERVIAN SONG.
TO BLOSSOMS.
CHILDREN’S POSIES.
FROM “JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST.”
J. L. KNAPP.
LOVE’S WREATH.
TO DAFFODILS.
THE LILY.
WILD FLOWERS.
TO THE SWEET-BRIER.
THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE.
WILD FLOWERS.
BEAU AND THE LILY.
FLOWERS.
ALPINE FLOWERS.
TO THE BRAMBLE FLOWER.
THE PAINTED CUP.
THE WREATH OF GRASSES.
DIVINATION.
GRASS.
ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON, 1613–1684.
DAFFODILS.
GRONGAR HILL.
LETTER ON CERTAIN TREES.
TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ.
FROM REV. GILBERT WHITE, OF SELBORNE.
GILBERT WHITE, 1720–1793.
A SKETCH.
AN ENGLISH PEASANT’S COTTAGE.
MARY R. MITFORD.
RUTH.
SIMPLE PLEASURES.
FROM “THE COMPLETE ANGLER.”
THE MILK-MAID’S SONG.
THE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.
THE MILK-MAID’S MOTHER’S ANSWER.
THE NYMPH’S REPLY.
IZAAK WALTON, 1593–1683.
THE SOLITARY REAPER.
THE HUSBANDMAN.
THE GARDEN.
FROM “THE HERBAL.”
JOHN GERARDE, 1545–1607.
OF GARDENS.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 1605–1682.
A GARDEN.
THE GARDEN OF ALCINOUS.
FROM HOMER.
THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
OF GARDENS.
And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it
LORD BACON, 1561–1624.
GARDENING.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, 1628–1696.
FLOWERS AND ART.
FROM “JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST.”
J. L. KNAPP.
CHINESE GARDENING.
EMPLOYMENT.
THE GARDEN.
THE GARDENER.
AN OLD SCOTCH BALLAD.
LINES.
SAXON SONG OF SUMMER.
MODERN VERSION.
LINES
FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON OF KING ALFRED.
THE SUMMER MONTHS.
VIRTUE.
FROM THE “HOLY DYING.”
BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR.
SIMILE.
THE SUN
THE SUN
DELIGHT IN GOD.
NOON.
FROM THE SPANISH.
SUMMER DREAM.
FROM THE GERMAN MINNESINGERS.
SUMMER.
PORTUGUESE CANZONET.
OF CAMOENS.
FROM “EVANGELINE.”
SONG.
A GROVE.
FROM “BRITANNIA’S PASTORAL.”
OF THE SEMINARY, AND OF TRANSPLANTING.
FROM “THE SILVA.’
JOHN EVELYN, 1628–1706.
WINDSOR FOREST.
FAIRLOP.
WILLIAM GILPIN, 1724–1807.
AN OLD OAK.
FROM COWPER’S LETTERS.
W. COWPER.—_Letter to S. Rose, Esq., Sept. 11, 1788._
YARDLEY OAK.
WILLIAM COWPER, 1731–1800.
THE GROANING ELM OF BADESLEY.
WILLIAM GILPIN, 1724–1807.
YEW-TREES.
LINES.
FROM THE ICELANDIC EDDA.
LIME-TREES.
WILLIAM GILPIN, 1724–1807.
THE BIRCH-TREE.
THE HEMLOCK-TREE.
FROM THE GERMAN.
THE OAK.
IMITATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF METASTASIO.
ON AN ANCIENT OAK.
FROM THE GREEK OF ANTIPHILUS.
WOOD NOTES.
A PINE-FOREST.
JOHN M. GODMAN, 1795–1829.
A WOOD IN WINTER.
FROM THE ITALIAN.
SONNET.
LINES
FROM “FAREWELL TO THE VANITIES OF THE WORLD.”
FLIGHT OF CRANES.
A SIMILE FROM HOMER.
THE SWALLOW AND THE GRASSHOPPER.
FROM THE GREEK, 450 B. C.
THE SAME
ANOTHER TRANSLATION.
SONG OF THE SWALLOW.
FROM THE GREEK.
SWALLOWS.
FROM “SALMONIA.”
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY.
LINES
FROM “THE POLYOLBION.”
THE BLACK COCK.
TO THE MOCKING-BIRD.
THE BOB-O-LINKUM.
THE OWL.
EXTRACT.
FROM “JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST.”
J. L. KNAPP.
THE PATTICHAP’S NEST.
A THOUGHT.
UPON OCCASION OF A RED-BREAST COMING INTO HIS CHAMBER.
BISHOP HALL, 1574–1656.
THE BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
FROM THE SWEDISH.
THE DOVE.
RUSSIAN.
THE DYING SWAN.
THE TWA CORBIES.
OLD SCOTTISH BALLAD.
THE RED-BREAST IN SEPTEMBER.
MUIOPOTMOS;
OR, THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE.
DEDICATED TO THE MOST FAIRE AND VERTUOUS LADIE, THE LADIE CAREY.
EDMUND SPENSER, 1553–1598.
ON A LOCUST.
FROM THE GREEK OF MNASALCUS.
TO THE CICADA.
FROM THE GREEK OF MELEAGER, 100 B. C.
THE GRASSHOPPER.
FROM THE GREEK OF ANACREON, 600 B. C.
INSECTS.
FLOWERS AND INSECTS.
THE DRAGON-FLY.
FROM THE GERMAN.
TO AN INSECT.
THE GRASSHOPPER.
THE STREAMS.
ARIEL’S SONG.
THE THAMES.
FROM “COOPER’S HILL.”
RIVER AND SONG.
ODE TO LEVEN-WATER.
SONG.
FROM THE GERMAN.
THE RIVULET.
FROM THE SPANISH.
THE STREAM OF THE ROCK.
FROM THE GERMAN.
A RIVER.
FROM “SALMONIA.”
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY.
LIFE COMPARED TO A STREAM.
ON THE BRONZE IMAGE OF A FROG.
FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO.
LITTLE STREAMS.
FROGS.
FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOPHANES.
THE RIVULETS.
JOHN KEBLE.
LINES.
THE WAY-SIDE SPRING.
GULLS.
THE FOUNTAIN.
ELVES.
HYNDE ETIN.
BALLAD OF THE WOODS.
THE FAIRY QUEEN.
THE MERRY PRANKS OF ROBIN GOOD-FELLOW.
SLAVIC.
AN OLD BALLAD.
COTTAGE FAIRY.
JOHN WILSON.
FAIRIES IN THE HIGHLANDS.
FROM THE “CULPRIT FAY.”
OF BEAUTY.
FRAGMENT.
THE MEMORY OF A WALK.
W. COWPER.—_Letter to S. Rose, Esq., Jan. 19, 1789._
A BOWER.
MIST OF THE MOUNTAIN-TOP.
EMBLEM.
A FLOWER GARDEN WITH SUNSHINE AND RAIN.
SONG.
TO A MOUNTAIN-DAISY,
ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOW, APRIL, 1786.
MOSSGIEL.
THE FOREST-LEAVES IN AUTUMN.
FROM “THE CHRISTIAN YEAR.”
JOHN KEBLE.
BOHEMIAN
ANCIENT SONG.
LANDSCAPE AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS.
THE OPENING YEAR.
JANUARY.
ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM
ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY.
FEBRUARY.
MARCH.
APRIL.
APRIL.
FROM THE FRENCH.
ODE TO FIRST OF APRIL.
THOMAS WARTON, 1728–1790.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
SUMMER.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SONNET.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
A SONNET.
NOVEMBER.
A SONNET.
NOVEMBER.
NOVEMBER IN ENGLAND.
SONNET.
NOVEMBER, 1792.
SONG.
DECEMBER.
I.
II.
THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
THE HAMLET.
AN ODE.
THE NOSEGAY.
FROM “JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST.”
J. L. KNAPP.
THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE.
LOSEL’S FARM.
FROM “THE SAD SHEPHERD.”
GIPSIES.
MARY R. MITFORD.
A STERILE FIELD.
THE ENGLISH COMMON.
MARY R. MITFORD.
LINES
TO A BEAUTIFUL SPRING IN A VILLAGE.
LINES
FROM “INDEPENDENCE.”
TO AUTUMN NEAR HER DEPARTURE.
AUTUMN.
ODE.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
ODE
TO WILLIAM LYTTLETON, ESQ.,
TOWARD THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1748.
SONG.
FROM THE GERMAN.
AUTUMN SCENE IN ENGLAND.
INDIAN SUMMER.
AN AUTUMN LANDSCAPE.
ALFRED STREET.
AUTUMN WOODS.
A WISH.
A COUNTRY LIFE.
FROM THE LATIN OF AVIENUS, A.D. 380.
OF BUILDING.
COUNTRY HOUSES.
OF BUILDING.
LORD BACON, 1561–1627.
THE WISH.
A THANKSGIVING FOR HIS HOUSE.
THE STRANGER ON THE SILL.
THE INVITATION.
FROM THE GERMAN.
ICELANDIC LINES.
FROM THE DISCOURSE OF ODIN.
DOMESTIC PEACE.
ANCIENT HUNTING SONG.
HOUNDS.
DEER LEAP.
THE HARE.
FROM “THE CHASE.”
A HUNTER’S MATIN.
A SPORTSMAN OF OLDEN TIME.
WILLIAM GILPIN, 1724–1807.
SONNET.
SONNET.
LINES.
ODE.
FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE.
LETTER OF SIR THOMAS MORE TO HIS WIFE.
THOMAS MORE, 1480–1535.
PEASANT PAVO.
SWEDISH.
COUNTRY LIFE.
FROM THE GERMAN.
SCENE IN AN AMERICAN FOREST.
FROM A LETTER OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD TO THE DUCHESS OF LEINSTER.
EDWARD FITZGERALD, 1763–1798.
SONG.
SONG.
BLESSINGS OF A COUNTRY LIFE.
PLAGUES OF A COUNTRY LIFE.
A STORM IN AUTUMN.
FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL.
TO THE RAINBOW.
THE WINDY NIGHT.
A SHOWER.
FROM COWPER’S LETTERS.
TO THE RAINBOW.
THE HURRICANE.
I was leaning on my knees, with my lips about to touch the water,
J. J. AUDUBON.
THE RAINBOW.
THE STORY OF AARON THE BEGGAR.
FROM THE SWEDISH.
ELEGY.
RUSSIAN.
TAKE THY OLD CLOAKE ABOUT THEE.[14]
THE COUNTRY LASSE.
OLD SONG.
HARVEST SONG.
FROM THE GERMAN.
SONG.
FROM THE SPANISH.
SERVIAN.
SONG OF THE PEASANT’S WIFE.
LINES.
THE BALADE OF THE SHEPHARDE.
FROM THE “KALENDAR OF SHEPHARDES.”
SONG.
FROM THE FRENCH.
SONG OF COLMA
OSSIAN.
I sit in my grief; I wait for morning in my tears! Rear the tomb,
JAMES MACPHERSON, 1738–1796.
SONG.
FROM “CYNTHIA’S REVELS.”
LINES.
LETTER OF ST. BASIL, DESCRIBING HIS HERMITAGE.
TO ST. GREGORY NAZIANZEN.
A VISION.
FROM ITALIAN OF PETRARCH.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
THE CAMPAGNA OF ROME.
JOHN RUSKIN.
THE WAVE OF LIFE.
FROM THE GERMAN.
MUTABILITY.
WINTER.
FROM HESIOD.
A WINTER SCENE.
FROM “THE SEASONS.”
WINTER SONG.
FROM THE GERMAN.
HOLLY SONG.
AN OLD-FASHIONED HOLLY HEDGE.
CHRISTMAS CAROL.
HOLLY AND IVY.
I.
II.
THE SEASONS.
A WINTER SONG.
THE THRUSH.
SONNET.
SPRING AND WINTER.
FROM THE FRENCH.
WOODS IN WINTER.
WINTER.
FRAGMENT FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE.
THE CREATION OF THE EARTH.
EARTH.
THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES.
FROM THE “ILIAD.”
LINES.
FROM “CHILDE HAROLD.”
AN ITALIAN NOON.
LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS, OCTOBER, 1818.
ITALIAN SONG.
A FARM SCENE IN PORTUGAL.
FROM A LETTER OF W. BECKFORD, ESQ.
Being considerably
WILLIAM BECKFORD.
FROM “THE LUSIAD.”
PARADISE.
FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE.
NATURE TEACHING IMMORTALITY.
THE MOON.
FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO.
LINES
FROM THE “MEMORABLE MASK.”
TO CYNTHIA.
TO NIGHT.
NIGHT.
TO THE MOON.
FROM THE GERMAN.
MOONLIGHT.
FROM THE GERMAN.
ELEGY.
FROM THE ITALIAN OF PETRARCH.
NIGHT SONG.
FROM THE GERMAN.
PROGRESS OF EVENING.
NIGHT.
FROM THE ITALIAN.
EVENING.
FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF CAMOENS.
SPRING EVENING.
FROM THE GERMAN.
SONG.
SONG.
LIFE.
ON HOPE.
SONNET.
TWILIGHT.
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