“O’erhead the balanced hen-hawk slides,
Twinned in the river’s heaven below;”
or this description of a winter scene,—
“I stood and watched by the window
The noiseless work of the sky,
And the sudden flurries of snow-birds
Like brown leaves whirling by.”
Hark!—
“All pleasant winds from south and west
With lullabies thine ears beguiled,