Birches

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  1. ice storm
    a storm with freezing rain that leaves everything glazed with ice
    Ice-storms do that.
  2. swinger
    someone who swings sports implements
    So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
  3. newsletter
    report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group
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  4. birch
    any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
    When I see birches bend to left and right
    Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
    I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
  5. one at a time
    in single file
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  6. Robert Frost
    United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
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    In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom."
  7. Balthasar
    (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus
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    Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily
    In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom."
  8. birch tree
    any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
    I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
    And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
    Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
    But dipped its top and set me down again.
  9. willfully
    in a willful manner
    May no fate willfully misunderstand me
    And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
    Not to return.
  10. pathless
    lacking pathways
    It's when I'm weary of considerations,
    And life is too much like a pathless wood
    Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
    Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
    From a twig's having lashed across it open.
  11. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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  12. Wisdom
    an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
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    Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily
    In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom."
  13. arching
    forming or resembling an arch
    They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
    And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
    So low for long, they never right themselves:
    You may see their trunks arching in the woods
    Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground
    Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
    Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
  14. bracken
    large coarse fern often several feet high
    They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
    And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
    So low for long, they never right themselves:
    You may see their trunks arching in the woods
    Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground
    Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
    Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
  15. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
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    Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily
    In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom."
  16. tickle
    (archaic) touch a body part lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
    It's when I'm weary of considerations,
    And life is too much like a pathless wood
    Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
    Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
    From a twig's having lashed across it open.
  17. shattering
    the act of breaking something into small pieces
    Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
    Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust--
    Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
    You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
  18. swish
    move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
    Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
    Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
  19. brim
    the top edge of a vessel or other container
    He always kept his poise
    To the top branches, climbing carefully
    With the same pains you use to fill a cup
    Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
  20. snow-white
    of the white color of snow
    I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
    And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
    Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
    But dipped its top and set me down again.
  21. swinging
    characterized by a buoyant rhythm
    When I see birches bend to left and right
    Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
    I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
  22. craze
    state of violent mental agitation
    They click upon themselves
    As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
    As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
  23. dome
    a concave shape whose concavity faces downward
    Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
    Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust--
    Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
    You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
  24. wither
    lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
    They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
    And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
    So low for long, they never right themselves:
    You may see their trunks arching in the woods
    Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground
    Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
    Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
  25. shatter
    break into many pieces
    Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
    Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust--
    Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
    You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
Created on 五月 26, 2010

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