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... wing , and the young are trying their powers . Their parents are glancing south , flashes of white and shining purple and chestnut as the sun catches the gloss when the birds dip earthward . Partridges cry to one another , for with a ...
... wing , and the young are trying their powers . Their parents are glancing south , flashes of white and shining purple and chestnut as the sun catches the gloss when the birds dip earthward . Partridges cry to one another , for with a ...
Page 48
... wings are much arched and the neck doubled back , is slow and heavy , and the long legs , carried straight out , project- ing behind ; this flight , seen early and late , according to an old tradition , being con- sidered very unlucky ...
... wings are much arched and the neck doubled back , is slow and heavy , and the long legs , carried straight out , project- ing behind ; this flight , seen early and late , according to an old tradition , being con- sidered very unlucky ...
Page 49
... wings being heard at some distance to dream , it may be certain , of these happy courting days and of a summer of peace before him ; and from behind a stump of a tree a baby rabbit comes peep- ing , wondering what strange giants people ...
... wings being heard at some distance to dream , it may be certain , of these happy courting days and of a summer of peace before him ; and from behind a stump of a tree a baby rabbit comes peep- ing , wondering what strange giants people ...
Page 69
... wings was an unknown quantity . They could not make out why their parents should want them to go down so far when they had just reached a high bough with much fear and trembling . At last the old birds got quite angry and chattered away ...
... wings was an unknown quantity . They could not make out why their parents should want them to go down so far when they had just reached a high bough with much fear and trembling . At last the old birds got quite angry and chattered away ...
Page 111
... wings wildly , producing the noise like the humming of a top or the striking of a violin string with the finger . This , of course , was the male bird doing his level best to keep all the attention to himself ; and he can hardly fail in ...
... wings wildly , producing the noise like the humming of a top or the striking of a violin string with the finger . This , of course , was the male bird doing his level best to keep all the attention to himself ; and he can hardly fail in ...
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Page 229 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 182 - THE sun is set ; the swallows are asleep ; The bats are flitting fast in the grey air ; The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep, And evening's breath, wandering here and there Over the quivering surface of the stream, Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream.
Page 162 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 78 - The residence of people of fortune and refinement in the country has diffused a degree of taste and elegance in rural economy, that descends to the lowest class. The very labourer, with his thatched cottage and narrow slip of ground, attends to their embellishment.
Page 152 - Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that change ere night Make glad the day, Whilst yet the calm hours creep, Dream thou — and from thy sleep Then wake to weep.
Page 118 - Obedient to the light That shone within his soul, he went, pursuing The windings of the dell. - The rivulet Wanton and wild, through many a green ravine Beneath the forest flowed. Sometimes it fell Among the moss with hollow harmony Dark and profound. Now on the polished stones It danced; like childhood laughing as it went: Then, through the plain in tranquil wanderings crept, 500 Reflecting every herb and drooping bud That overhung its quietness.
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Page 84 - ... throw in a semblance of green summer to cheer the fireside, all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever Love, as poets sing, delights to visit a cottage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant.