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There shall be. Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. " The Soldier " is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. It is the fifth and final sonnet in the sequence 1914, published posthumously in 1915 in the collection 1914 and Other Poems. The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge.
A dragonfly in its radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult.. In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in ...
Four deciduous forests shown in spring, summer, autumn and winter. In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/ dɪˈsɪdʒu.əs /) [ 1 ][ 2 ] means "falling off at maturity" [ 3 ] and "tending to fall off", [ 4 ] in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals ...
Surface of an organ facing away from the organ's axis, e.g. the lower surface of a lateral organ such as a leaf or petal. [2] Contrast adaxial. abort. To abandon development of a structure or organ. [3] abscission. Natural shedding of an organ that is mature or aged, as of a ripe fruit or an old leaf.
Autotomy (from the Greek auto-, "self-" and tome, "severing", αὐτοτομία) or 'self-amputation', is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards an appendage, [1] usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape. Some animals are able to regenerate the lost body ...
Birches (poem) " Birches " is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. First published in the August 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly together with "The Road Not Taken" and "The Sound of Trees" as "A Group of Poems". It was included in Frost's third collection of poetry Mountain Interval, which was published in 1916.
Shed. Type of structure: a small hut used for storage or as a workspace. A rural shed. Modern secure bike sheds. A garden shed with a gambrel roof. A shed is typically a simple, single-story roofed structure, often used for storage, for hobbies, or as a workshop, and typically serving as outbuilding, such as in a back garden or on an allotment.
Perennials (especially small flowering plants) that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back every autumn and winter, and then return in the spring from their rootstock or other overwintering structure, are known as herbaceous perennials. [5] However, depending on the rigours of the local climate (temperature, moisture, organic ...