 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 856 pages
...there 's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird site at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves And lets his illumined being o'errun, With the deluge of summer it receives ; ITis mate feels the egg« beneath her wings And the heart in... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt3 like a blossom among the leaves And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the egg beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1875 - 486 pages
...green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean 6. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...in its chalice. And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. 2. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives. His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
 | William Fearing Gill - American literature - 1876 - 416 pages
...giving, weary never, Little streams, I love you ever. 21 SONNET. SONNET. BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 pages
...sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1875 - 44 pages
...chalice, And there '3 never a leaf OK a blade too mean To b<5 sense happy creaturt's palace ; Trie little bird sits at his door in the sun, •Atilt...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feeJs the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1876 - 538 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of puuimer it receives." A striking examp'e of both qualities may be taken from the... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 294 pages
...meadows green, And there 's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
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The little bird sits at his door in the sun, A-tilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings;... 
