“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,