 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...thought — Repined, and groaned, and withered from the earth. Robert Pallóle. 2713. SATIETY, Emblem of. leep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dream Alight Ьз supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch,... | |
 | Hymns - 1875 - 336 pages
...eyes; Softly I sing — Sleeps, sleeps my baby boy, Baby, my king ! REA. BABY, THE KING ! THE JACKDAW. THERE is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness...a crow ; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns... | |
 | Early days, Gleanings - Animal behavior - 1874 - 224 pages
...oS. by heart many years ago, and very likely you will dothe same if I here place them before you. " THERE is a bird, who, by his coat, And by the hoarseness...a crow ; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch, And dormitory too. " Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...The lightniug and the gale. (Drain, bv A. EIWES.) THE JACKDAW. [WILLUM COWPEB. S« Page 39, Vol. I.] THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness...a crow ; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and... | |
 | Marshall John and co - 1876 - 168 pages
...noble to be good. True hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. THE JACKDAW. THERE is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness...a crow : A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch And dormitory i too. Above the steeple shines a plate,2 That turns and... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...chance, you may guess, not to say, " Ask mamma," but at once to say " Yes ! " THE JACKDAW. — (Cowper.) THERE is a bird, who, by his coat, and by the hoarseness...a crow ; a great frequenter of the church, where, bishop-like, he finds a perch and dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate that turns and turns,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...dying thought — Repined, and groan'd, and wither 'd from the earth. Pollok. 3036. SATIETY. Emblem of bishop-like, he finds a perch, And dormitory too. You think, no doubt, he sits and muses On future... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 pages
...expression. Cowper's Letters arc the most delightful in the language. Born, 1731; Died 1800. THEBE is a "bird who, by his coat, And by the hoarseness...supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1877 - 104 pages
...storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. THE JACKDAW. PROM "VINCENT BOURNE." j|ERE is a bird who, by his coat, And by the hoarseness...a crow ; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and... | |
 | Natural history - 1877 - 510 pages
...and in situation, we must yet regard these aberrations as governed entirely by external conditions. " There is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow." This is the jackdaw of Europe, and an interesting example he is for us. Dr. Wood says: "in some of... | |
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THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate... 
