Wild Scenes and Song-birdsLeavitt and Allen, 1858 - 347 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 20
... knew he inspected , while on the wing , all the premises . He approached my old hiding - place very cautiously , mounting high in the air ; when seeming to be satisfied , he poised himself for a moment , and came down in a slanting ...
... knew he inspected , while on the wing , all the premises . He approached my old hiding - place very cautiously , mounting high in the air ; when seeming to be satisfied , he poised himself for a moment , and came down in a slanting ...
Σελίδα 21
... knew my hiding - place . While he knew what to fear , he knew how to deport him- self accordingly ; but when it came to treachery to all the laws of war ; a change of the place , a well - disguised snow- trap buried in the white ...
... knew my hiding - place . While he knew what to fear , he knew how to deport him- self accordingly ; but when it came to treachery to all the laws of war ; a change of the place , a well - disguised snow- trap buried in the white ...
Σελίδα 56
... knew its white - barred wings from afar off , but not its name ; nor had they heard its song . It had always shown itself wild and shy in the extreme - as if it were a mere passenger through an evil country , and feared to rest the ...
... knew its white - barred wings from afar off , but not its name ; nor had they heard its song . It had always shown itself wild and shy in the extreme - as if it were a mere passenger through an evil country , and feared to rest the ...
Σελίδα 59
... knew all the birds around me so well , that I could detect the presence of a stranger among them as readily as I should have noticed a sixth fin- ger or toe , which had suddenly been added to my worldly gifts . I was gunning one day ...
... knew all the birds around me so well , that I could detect the presence of a stranger among them as readily as I should have noticed a sixth fin- ger or toe , which had suddenly been added to my worldly gifts . I was gunning one day ...
Σελίδα 62
... on the billowy storm of sound . No wonder the other birds were silent , to listen , for , one after one he hurled the notes of each upon its ear so alchemyzed with splendor , that they knew not their own 62 WILD SCENES AND SONG - BIRDS .
... on the billowy storm of sound . No wonder the other birds were silent , to listen , for , one after one he hurled the notes of each upon its ear so alchemyzed with splendor , that they knew not their own 62 WILD SCENES AND SONG - BIRDS .
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American Robin amidst animal Artist Audubon Bald Eagle BALTIMORE ORIOLE beak beautiful beneath blue blue birds breath Brownie cage chirp commenced creature crow dark dart deep Eagle earth expression eyes feathers feel fellow fierce fish Fish-Hawk flowers Gentle Bird Golden Eagle habits hand hawk head hear heard heart humming bird Kelpie Kentucky knew larvæ light limb living look male manner mate melody mocking bird morning mother naturalist nature nest never night notes numbers Orchard Oriole Osprey Painted Finch perch plumage plumes Poet poor prey Richard Harlan river says scene scream seemed seen shadow shrike sing song Song Thrush soul sound species spiritual spring strange suddenly sweet thee things thou thought throat tion Todd tree voice watched weary wild wings Wood Thrush Yankee young birds
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Σελίδα 165 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Σελίδα 302 - Tringae coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming over the surface; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading; clamorous Crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention.
Σελίδα 54 - mong oldest trees Feel palpitations when thou lookest in : O Moon ! old boughs lisp forth a holier din The while they feel thine airy fellowship. Thou dost bless everywhere, with silver lip Kissing dead things to life.
Σελίδα 197 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Σελίδα 303 - The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his gra?p ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Σελίδα 176 - Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed Bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place; That is fit home for Thee ! 1804.
Σελίδα 175 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, • Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Σελίδα 90 - ... dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises preeminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
Σελίδα 174 - SWIFT as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth. The smokeless altars of the mountain snows Flamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth Of light, the Ocean's orison arose, To which the birds tempered their matin lay. All flowers in field or forest...
Σελίδα 157 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.