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... in the busy city , it bears a memory of early days , passed in the country , when he can no longer wander to hear it among the green boughs . From such we would not withhold it ; yet surely the caged bird 6 OUR NATIVE SONGSTERS .
... in the busy city , it bears a memory of early days , passed in the country , when he can no longer wander to hear it among the green boughs . From such we would not withhold it ; yet surely the caged bird 6 OUR NATIVE SONGSTERS .
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... bough , but on the other hand , no bird is more skilful in ridding the garden of the snails and slugs , which destroy alike the loveliest flowers , and the finest fruits . All the thrushes , as well as the blackbird , make great havoc ...
... bough , but on the other hand , no bird is more skilful in ridding the garden of the snails and slugs , which destroy alike the loveliest flowers , and the finest fruits . All the thrushes , as well as the blackbird , make great havoc ...
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... boughs of the mountain - ash . The thrush remains with us all the year , receiv- ing great accessions at the autumnal season , from numbers which come from the north , with the fieldfares and redwings . They do not fly in flocks , but ...
... boughs of the mountain - ash . The thrush remains with us all the year , receiv- ing great accessions at the autumnal season , from numbers which come from the north , with the fieldfares and redwings . They do not fly in flocks , but ...
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... boughs , And where rich sulphur - tinted flowers are set Around the slight stalks of the first primrose . " It is the spring ! I hear her first glad song ! I see her earliest bird , the speckled thrush ! His descant rich swells sweet ...
... boughs , And where rich sulphur - tinted flowers are set Around the slight stalks of the first primrose . " It is the spring ! I hear her first glad song ! I see her earliest bird , the speckled thrush ! His descant rich swells sweet ...
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... boughs of pale green mistletoe , And plucks its yellow flowers , or feeds On the dark ivy's berried seeds : And sure I ne'er have heard a song More clear , more full , more rich , more strong . Though mix'd at times with harsher note ...
... boughs of pale green mistletoe , And plucks its yellow flowers , or feeds On the dark ivy's berried seeds : And sure I ne'er have heard a song More clear , more full , more rich , more strong . Though mix'd at times with harsher note ...
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Стр. 319 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Стр. 128 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Стр. 182 - 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 o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Стр. 94 - Tis gone! (so seemed it) and we grieved Indignant at the wrong. Just three days after, passing by In clearer light the moss-built cell I saw, espied its shaded mouth; And felt that all was well. The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus, for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
Стр. 128 - But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping sound more sweet than all ; Stirring the air with such a harmony, That should you close your eyes, you might almost Forget it was not day...
Стр. 127 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have...
Стр. 184 - Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm, But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Стр. 262 - One appeared dead, and was held up by the tail or claw without exhibiting any signs of life ; a second stood on its head with its claws in the air ; a third imitated a Dutch milk-maid going to market, with pails on its shoulders ; a fourth mimicked a Venetian girl looking out at a window ; a fifth appeared as a soldier, and mounted guard as a sentinel...
Стр. 80 - And seldom needs a laboured roof ; Yet is it to the fiercest sun Impervious, and storm-proof. So warm, so beautiful withal, In perfect fitness for its aim, That to the Kind, by special grace, Their instinct surely came.