BELLS.

BIRDS-ALBATROSS.

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I heard

Then get thee gone; and dig my grave thyThe bells of the convent ringing

self; Noon from their noisy towers.

And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear, Q. LONGFELLOW-Christus. The Golden That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.

Legend. Pt. II. g. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act. IV. Sc. 4. Seize the loud, vociferous bells, and

Ring in the valiant man and free,
Clashing, clanging, to the pavement
Hurl them from their windy tower !

Ring in the Christ that is to be. b. LONGFELLOW-Christus. The Golden ho TENNYSON- In Memoriam. Pt. CV. Legend. Prologue.

Ring out wild bells to the wild sky, These bells have been anointed,

The flying cloud, the frosty light. And baptized with holy water!

TENNYSON- In Memoriam. Pt. CV. C. LONGFELLOW-Christus. The Golden Legend. Prologue. Hark! the loud-voiced bells

Stream on the world around Those evening bells! those evening bells! With the full wind, as it swells, How many a tale their music tells!

Seas of sound! d. MOORE- Those Evening Bells.

j. FREDERICK TENNYSON- The Bridal.

Pt. V. With deep affection

Softly the loud peal dies, And recollection

In passing wind it drowns, I often think of

But breathes, like perfect joys, Those Shandon bells,

Tender tones. Whose sounds so wild would,

k. FREDERICK TENNYSOx-The Bridal. In the days of childhood,

Pt. VII. Fling round my cradle Their magic spells.

How like the leper, with his own sad cry € FATHER PROUT (Francis Mahony). Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls! "The Bells of Shandon.

| That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals,

To warn us from the place of jeopardy! Sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh.

CHARLES (TENNYSON) TURNER- The f. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1.

Traveller and His Wife's Ringlet.

BIRDS--ALBATROSS.

BIRDS-CANARY.

Great albatross !-the meanest birds

How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! Spring up and flit away,

The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze While thou must toil to gain a flight,

His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon; And spread those pinions grey;

Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' But when they once are fairly poised,

whispering trees; Far o'er each chirping thing

And birds of morning trim their bustling Thou sailest wide to other lands,

wings, E'en sleeping on the wing.

And listen fondly-while the Blackbird sings. U. LELAND-Perseverando.

i. FREDERICK TENNYSON--The Blackbirdi.

St. 1. BAT.

BLUEBIRD. The sun was set; the night came on a pace,

| “So the Bluebirds have contracted, have And falling dews bewet around the place,

they, for a house? The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,

And a nest is under way for little Mr. And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.

Wren? b. Gay--Shepherd's Week. Wednesday;

Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear; quiet as or, The Dumps.

a mouse. Ere the bat hath flown These are weighty secrets, and we must His cloister'd flight.

whisper them." c. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2.

j. Susan COOLIDGE- Secrets.

In the thickets and the meadows
BEACH-BIRD.

Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa,
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, On the summit of the lodges
Why takest thou its melancholy voice, Sang the robin, the Opechee.
And with that boding cry

k. LONGFELLOW-- Hiawatha. Pt. XXI. Along the breakers tly? d. Dana-The Little Beuch-Bird.

BOBOLINK.

Modest and shy as a nun is she;
BLACKBIRD.

One weak chirp is her only note;
And from each hill let music thrill

Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, Give my fair love good morrow,

Pouring boasts from his little throat. Blackbird and thrush in every bush,

I. BRYANT--Robert of Lincoln. Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow.

Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, e. Tuomas HEYWOOD. 1610.

Wearing a bright black wedding-coat; The birds have ceased their songs,

White are his shoulders and white his crest. All save the blackbird, that from yon tall

in. BRYANT--Robert of Lincoln. ash,

Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow

Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, throat,

Passing at home a patient life, In ndoration of the setting sun,

Broods in the grass while her husband Chants forth his evening hymn.

sings. f. MOIR- An Evening Sketch.

n. BRYANT— Robert of Lincoln. A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn- | The broad blue mountains lift their brows tree:

Barely to bathe them in the blaze;
A spruce little fellow as ever could be;

The bobolinks from silence rouse
His bill was so yellow, his feathers so black, And flash along melodious ways!
So long was his tail, and so glossy his back, 0. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD---
That good Mrs. B., who sat hatching her

Daybreak. eggs, And only just left them to stretch her poor

CANARY.

Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's And pick for a minute the worm she preferred,

praise, Thought there never was seen such a beautiful Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw, bird.

With graceless toil of beak and added claw, g. D. M. MULOCK-The Blackbird and The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!

the Rooks. And this--to gratify the gloating gaze

Of fools, who value Nature not a straw, O Blackbird! sing me something well:

But know to prize the intraction of her law While all the neighbors shoot thee round,

And hard perversion of her creature's ways ! I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground

Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

Where notes of liquid utterance should enThe espaliers and the standards all

gage Are thine: the range of lawn and park: Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns, The unnetted black-hearts ripen dark,

p. JULIAN FANE-Poems. Second Edition, All thine against the garden wall.

with Additional Poems. To a h. TENNYSON- The Blackbird.

Canary Biru.

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BIRDS-DOVE.

BIRDS-FALCON.

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on,
When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; | Leaving no tract behind.
Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, l. Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1.
When thro' the clouds he drives the trem-
bling doves.

I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd a. POPE, Windsor Forest. Line 185. From the spungy south to this part of the

west, So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows. There vanish'd in the sunbeams.

b. Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sec. 5. m. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. The dove and very blessed spirit of peace.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, c. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 1.

And is not careful what they mean thereby.

n. Titus Andronicus. Act IV. Sc. 4. I heard a stock-dove sing or say

Around, around, in ceaseless circles wheeling His homely tale this very day;

With clang of wings and scream, the Eagle His voice was buried among trees,

sailed Yet to be come-at by the breeze:

Incessantly. He did not cease; but cooed--and cooed;

0. SHELLEY---Revolt of Islam. Canto I. And somewhat pensively he wooed:

St. 10. He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin, and never ending;

Ho clasps the crag with hooked hands; Of serious faith, and inward glee;

Close to the sun in lonely lands, That was the song,--the song for me!

Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. d. WORDSWORTH.-0 Nightingale! Thou The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:

Surely Art. He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.
EAGLE.

p. TENNYSON--The Eagle. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain,

Shall eagles not be eagles ? wrens be wrens ?

If all the world were falcons, what of that ? No more through rolling clouds to soar again,

The wonder of the eagle were the less, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,

But he not less the eagle. And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his

q. TENNYSON -- The Golden Year. Line 37. heart. e. BYRON- English Bards and Scotch The engle, with wings strong and free, Reviewers. Line 826. · Builds her home with the flags in the tower.

ing crags Tho' he inherit

That o'erhang the white foam of the sea. Nor the pride, nor ample pinion,

r. John H. YATES-A Song of Home. That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Thro' the azure deep of air.

ESTRIDGE. f. GRAY-- The Progress of Poesy.

All furnish'd, all in arms;

All plum'd, like estridges that wing the wind The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his airy tour, Bated, like eagles having lately bath'd; Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

Glittering in golden coats, like images; g. MILTON -- Paradise Lost. Bk. XI.

As full of spirit as the month of May,
Line 184.

And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;

Wanton as the youthful goats, wild as young Bird of the broad and sweeping wing,

bulls. Thy home is high in heaven,

s. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. Where wide the storm their banners fling, And the tempest clouds are driven.

FALCON. h. PERCIVAL-- The Eugle.

I know a falcon swift and peerless So in the Libyan fable it is told

As e'er was cradled in the pine; That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, No bird had ever eye so fearless, Said when he saw the fashion of the shaft,

Or wing so strong as this of mine. “With our own feathers, not by other's hands t. LOWELL- The Falcon. Are we now smitten." i. PLUMPTRE'S Aeschylus. Fragm. 123.

Will the falcon, stooping from above,

Smit with her varying plumage, spare the Little eagles wave their wings in gold -

dove ? j. PoPE--Moral Essays. Ep. V.

Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?
Line 30. Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

U. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. III.
All furnish'd, all in arms;

Line 53.
All plum'd, like estridges that with the wind
Bated,-like eagles having lately bath'd; A falcon tow'ring in her pride of place,
Glittering in golden coats, like images.' | Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.

k. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. v. Macbeth. Act II, Sc. 4.