 | William Howe Cuyler Hosmer - 1844 - 256 páginas
...bracelet caught a gleam ; Then the dark wood of boughs inweaved, Within its depths the troop received. rv. Beneath tall beeches, gray with eld, Their labyrinthine...his channel'd bed, Deep blushes from the sunset red, r. And, stealing onward, reached a bay Where light pirogues of white-wood lay> Fashioned and hollowed... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 páginas
...hunted foxes when the hound And hunter are in liot pursuit. The red-breast perch'd in arbour green, find minstrel of the quiet scene, While hymning, for the...partridge kept ; Nor left the deer his watering-place, So hush'd, so noiseless was their pace. A DESERTED HALL. Usnr.n the neglected arbour Foxes in the night-time... | |
 | E.F. Beadle (and co.) - 1861 - 506 páginas
...;" and the hunter turned to attend to his own safety. CHAPTER IX. HIFLEMAN AND HURON ON THK TRAIT,. The woodcock, in his moist retreat, Heard not the...watering-place, So hushed, so noiseless was their pace. WHC HOSMER. ON a fine summer day, the one succeeding that upon which occurred the incident just related,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 páginas
...While singing, for the dying sun, As sings tt broken-hearted one, itnlst'd not her uiotlled wing tn fly, As swept those silent warriors by ; The woodcock...his drum the partridge kept; Nor left the deer his watvrinjr-place — So hushed, so noiseless was their pace." In a similar vein-is the following finely... | |
 | 1913 - 760 páginas
...the secret snipe, That on the borders of the slimy field Sucks up its draining juice. — M'K1NNON. The woodcock in his moist retreat, Heard not the falling of their feet. — HOSMER. Bubbling within some basin green So fringed with fern, the woodcock's bill Scarce penetrates... | |
 | Ernest Whitney Martin - 1914 - 272 páginas
...the secret snipe, That on the borders of the slimy field Sucks up its draining juice. — M'KINNON. The woodcock in his moist retreat. Heard not the falling of their feet. — HOSMER. Bubbling within some basin green So fringed with fern, the woodcock's bill Scarce penetrates... | |
 | Ernest Whitney Martin - 1914 - 270 páginas
...the secret snipe, That on the borders of the slimy field Sucks up its draining juice. — M'K1NNON. The woodcock in his moist retreat, Heard not the falling of their feet. — HOSMER. Bubbling within some basin green So fringed with fern, the woodcock's bill Scarce penetrates... | |
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The red-breast, perched in arbor green, Sad minstrel of the quiet scene — While hymning, for the dying sun, Strains like a broken-hearted one, Raised not her mottled wing to fly As swept those silent warriors by. The wood-cock, in his moist retreat,... 