 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...  Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie - Page 3831883Full view - About this book
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - English poetry - 1866 - 306 pages
...Invasura focum. Dem interiora per aulaj 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. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...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 attracl his slender feet. The foodless wilds pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, though timorous... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - Amusements - 1868 - 358 pages
...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." THOHSOS. The Redbreast is emphatically the home-bird of England ; the favourite of rich and poor, old... | |
 | Animals - 1899 - 478 pages
...On the warm hearth ; then hopping on the floor Eyes all the family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is, Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet." The nest of the robin is built in the hole of a wall, or in the hedgerow. Its nest is made of dried... | |
 | David Grant (of Aberdeen) - 1871 - 478 pages
...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. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1872 - 218 pages
...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" THOMSON. The Redbreast is emphatically the home-bird of England ; the favourite of rich and poor, old... | |
 | National reading books - 1872 - 264 pages
...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. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance. And pecks, and starts, e sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet ! For only The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pages
...hcurth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Kyes 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. (TA.) 9. Maggie hung on his neck in rather a strangling fashion, while his blue-grey eyes wandered... | |
 | How - 1873 - 222 pages
...hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance,3 And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is, Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet.4 The foodless wilds Pour forth" their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart,... | |
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