sky-tints

Updated: May 10, 2025

Its companion was the tiny four-cleft innocence-flower, that drifted pale sky-tints across the chilly fields. Both came to us in crowds, and looked out with us, as they do with the small girls and boys of to-day, from the windy crest of Powder House Hill, the one playground of my childhood which is left to the children and the cows just as it was then.

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)

Here I pass the happiest hours of the day, looking out on the river, bridge, gravel walks, meadows, gardens, and hills, famous in war, rising beyond. At sunset I return to town. In observing atmospheric changes I endeavour to interweave cloud-forms and sky-tints with words and images.

- The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters