 | George Low - Natural history - 1813 - 272 pages
...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,...familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The robin never migrates from these isles ; is seen through the whole winter about the houses... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...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,...wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Birds - 1815 - 170 pages
...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,...familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. Thomson's Seasons, An ADDRESS to the ROBIN. AWAY, pretty Robin, fly home to your nest, To make... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm earth ; then hopping o'er the floor Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts,...wonders where he is : 'Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The great beauty of that celebrated poet consists in his elegant... | |
 | Birds - 1816 - 338 pages
...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,...familiar grown, the table crumbs " Attract his slender feet." The young Redbreast, when full feathered, may be taken for a different bird, being spotted all... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...the floor, BOOK IV. DESCRIPTIVE AND PATHETIC. 277 \^ lives all the smiling family askance, And peck;, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract hU tender feet. THOMSON. A WINTER EVENING. NOW stir (he fire, and close the shatters fast ; Let fall... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...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,...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.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Against the window heats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes e, the traitor-friend. On t* table-crumbs Attract his slender feet The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
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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... 
