repose-breathing

Updated: May 17, 2025

so calm, so cool, so repose-breathing, the shrill twitter of the swallow the only sound now heard amid its silence; the fleecy clouds, throwing that rich interior into alternate light and shade, as they sail lazily along the deep blue sky the only moving objects, save the long wreaths of ivy, that, green as the tender buds of spring, tap lightly against the casement, as they are swayed by the impulses of the summer breeze.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846