Wild Scenes and Song BirdsGeorge P. Putnam & Company, 1854 - 347 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 13
... seen rising in the air from ten to twenty yards in an indirect manner , jerking his tail and body , flapping his wings , and singing with remark- able impetuosity , as if under the influence of haste , and anx- ious to return to the ...
... seen rising in the air from ten to twenty yards in an indirect manner , jerking his tail and body , flapping his wings , and singing with remark- able impetuosity , as if under the influence of haste , and anx- ious to return to the ...
Σελίδα 17
... seen in the gay apparel of yellow and black . The Rice Bird loses its lively brightness until the return of spring . Others take several years before they complete their plumage , so as to show the true place which they hold among the ...
... seen in the gay apparel of yellow and black . The Rice Bird loses its lively brightness until the return of spring . Others take several years before they complete their plumage , so as to show the true place which they hold among the ...
Σελίδα 23
... seen flying off , each repeating the well known notes of the trusty watchman , who , just as the young gunner is about to take aim , betakes himself to flight . But , alas ! he chances , unwittingly , to pass over a sportsman , whose ...
... seen flying off , each repeating the well known notes of the trusty watchman , who , just as the young gunner is about to take aim , betakes himself to flight . But , alas ! he chances , unwittingly , to pass over a sportsman , whose ...
Σελίδα 33
... seen in the nest . The water commenced rising very rapidly in the sink . The birds became uneasy ; they fluttered and screamed , and made a wonderful to - do . At last one of them flew down to the last twig above the rising water . He ...
... seen in the nest . The water commenced rising very rapidly in the sink . The birds became uneasy ; they fluttered and screamed , and made a wonderful to - do . At last one of them flew down to the last twig above the rising water . He ...
Σελίδα 37
... seen and felt the universe of matter an harmonious whole the harp of God ! —each string accordant with the string last touched , and melting in the tone of that before . No jarring notes— no discord ! but order the law , and music ...
... seen and felt the universe of matter an harmonious whole the harp of God ! —each string accordant with the string last touched , and melting in the tone of that before . No jarring notes— no discord ! but order the law , and music ...
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American Robin amidst animal Artist Audubon Bald Eagle beak beautiful beneath blue birds breath Brownie cage cardinal bird chirp commenced creature crow dark dart deep Eagle earth expression eyes feathers feel fellow fierce Finch fish Fish-Hawk flowers Gentle Bird Golden Eagle habits hand HARVARD COLLEGE 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 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 tell thee things thou thought throat tion Todd tree voice watched weary wild wings Wood Thrush Yankee young birds
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Σελίδα 163 - 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 37 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear.
Σελίδα 175 - Art thou the Bird whom Man loves best, The pious Bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin; The Bird that comes about our doors When Autumn winds are sobbing?
Σελίδα 49 - Control my spirit, guide my wandering heart Though but an atom midst immensity, Still I am something, fashioned by Thy hand ! I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth, On the last verge of mortal being stand, Close to the realms where angels have their birth, Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land...
Σελίδα 52 - And yet thy benediction passeth not One obscure hiding-place, one little spot Where pleasure may be sent : the nested wren Has thy fair face within its tranquil ken, And from beneath a sheltering ivy leaf Takes glimpses of thee ; thou art a relief To the poor patient oyster, where it sleeps Within its pearly house.
Σελίδα 168 - Olympians, 1 see, and sing, by my own eyes inspired. So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours; Thy voice, thy lute, thy pipe, thy incense sweet From swinged censer teeming; Thy shrine, thy grove, thy oracle, thy heat Of pale-mouthed prophet dreaming.
Σελίδα 88 - ... 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 155 - 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.
Σελίδα 165 - Of favouring heaven: from their enchanted caves Prophetic echoes flung dim melody. On the unapprehensive wild The vine, the corn, the olive mild, Grew savage yet, to human use unreconciled; And, like unfolded flowers beneath the sea, Like the man's thought dark in the infant's brain, Like aught that is which wraps what is to be, Art's deathless dreams lay veiled by many a vein Of Parian stone; and yet a speechless child, Verse murmured, and Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee; when o'er...
Σελίδα 178 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree, Whose root is earth, whose leaves and branches be The skies which rain their plagues on men like dew — Disease, death, bondage — all the woes we see, And worse, the woes we see not — which throb through The immedicable soul, with heart-aches ever new.