Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping... Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry - Página 106por Henry Headley - 1810Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 páginas
...brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, *5 others' hands; for, though now old table crumbs Attract his slender feet The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
| George Douglas - 1911 - 212 páginas
...instance his vignette of the redbreast entering a human habitation in winter : — Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The little picture is instinct with life. And very much finer and more highly-finished, in a similar... | |
| 1911 - 784 páginas
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
| 1912 - 396 páginas
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart and hard... | |
| William Stebbing - 1913 - 424 páginas
...thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is.8 He overflowed with kindliness to everything sensible to pleasure and pain. If a century had to... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 páginas
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half -afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 854 páginas
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 250 fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: "My...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone a 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare Though... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 páginas
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first zso Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where be is: Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 25* Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 páginas
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half -afraid, he first 25° Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 páginas
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On...where he is; Till more familiar grown, the tablecrumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though... | |
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