Maria White Lowell

“ And when the sod grows brown and bare,
The shepherd strives to make them climb
To airy shelves of pasture green,
That hang along the mountain's side,
Where grass and flowers together lean,
And down through mist the sunbeams slide. ”

“ They sang in undertone,
"O he is but a little Owl,
The smallest of his kin,
Who sits beneath the Midnight's cowl
And makes this airy din. "
"Deceitful tongues, of fiery tints,
Far more than this you know,—
That he is your Enchanted Prince
Doom'd as an owl to go."
"Nor his fond play for years hath stopp'd
But nightly he unrolls
His silver ball that, softly dropp'd,
Ring into golden bowls."
This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ Whose life on shore had just begun,
The very best beneath the sun!
Malta, August 23, 1851.
[Note. The boys in the streets of Malta string the jasmine blossoms and give or sell them to the passers-by.] ”