The Poets' BirdsChatto and Windus, 1883 - 490 páginas |
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... fly Now your water - pots are dry ? If ye stay upon the heath , Ye'll be choak'd and clamm'd to death : Therefore leave the shadeless goss , Seek the spring - head lin'd with moss ; There your little feet may stand , Safely printing in ...
... fly Now your water - pots are dry ? If ye stay upon the heath , Ye'll be choak'd and clamm'd to death : Therefore leave the shadeless goss , Seek the spring - head lin'd with moss ; There your little feet may stand , Safely printing in ...
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... fly -Parnell : Frogs and Mice . Thro ' wild expanses of the midway sky . Her spectres wan and birds of boding cry , He gives to range the dreary sky . — Gray : Progress of Poesy . A shriek Flew up through that long avenue of light ...
... fly -Parnell : Frogs and Mice . Thro ' wild expanses of the midway sky . Her spectres wan and birds of boding cry , He gives to range the dreary sky . — Gray : Progress of Poesy . A shriek Flew up through that long avenue of light ...
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... his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he slings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough away she slings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy The Poets ' Birds . 49.
... his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he slings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough away she slings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy The Poets ' Birds . 49.
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Phil Robinson. The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she wings . Winter is won , that was the flowers ' bale . -Surrey : Description of Spring . And now the goddess bids the birds appear , Raise all ...
Phil Robinson. The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she wings . Winter is won , that was the flowers ' bale . -Surrey : Description of Spring . And now the goddess bids the birds appear , Raise all ...
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... flies . The singing of the summer birds . -Shelley : Epipsychidion . The Summer loves not silence ; her great charm Is in the concourse of a thousand sounds : -- The birds , the winds , the very earth herself Breathing with life at ...
... flies . The singing of the summer birds . -Shelley : Epipsychidion . The Summer loves not silence ; her great charm Is in the concourse of a thousand sounds : -- The birds , the winds , the very earth herself Breathing with life at ...
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Página 42 - Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise ; Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep , Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light...
Página 327 - ... appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...
Página 429 - And a good south wind sprung up behind ; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo ! In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine ; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white Moon-shine.
Página 430 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Página 286 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard, Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 149 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Página 351 - Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him. — And they would shout Across the watery vale, and shout again, Responsive to his call...
Página 326 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Página 267 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver, Joy and jollity be with us both!
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