 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 σελίδες
...closest thickets 'tis concealed; Sometimes in hedge luxuriant, where the brier, The bramble, and the plumtree, branch, Warp through the thorn, surmounted...flowers Of climbing vetch, and honeysuckle wild, All undetaced by Art's deforming hand. But mark the pretty bird himself! how light And quick his every... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 σελίδες
...closest thickets 'tis concealed, Sometimes in hedge luxuriant where the briar, The bramble, and the plum-tree branch ; Warp through the thorn, surmounted...the flowers Of climbing vetch and honeysuckle wild." ' * The eggs are four or five in number, of a bluish white, with a few small spots, chiefly at the... | |
 | British birds - 1840 - 326 σελίδες
...closest thickets 'tis conceal'd ; Sometimes in hedge luxuriant, where the brier, The bramble, and the plum.tree branch, "Warp through the thorn• surmounted...the flowers Of climbing vetch and honeysuckle wild." One gentleman, observing a pair of goldfinches beginning to build, saw that they had formed the groundwork... | |
 | 1842 - 294 σελίδες
...endearing attitude expired with them in the flames."— Brit. Cyclop. THE GOLDFINCH'S NEST. (8raf)am. SOMETIMES, suspended at the limber end Of plane-tree...the flowers Of climbing vetch, and honeysuckle wild, AE undefaced by Art's deforming hand. But mark the pretty bird himself ! how light And quick his every... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 344 σελίδες
...closest thickets 'tis concealed ; Sometimes in hedge luxuriant, where the briar, The bramble, and the plum-tree branch, Warp through the thorn, surmounted...flowers Of climbing vetch, and honeysuckle wild." * FAMILY V. COLIAD.E. A few singularly-formed birds constitute the present Family, whose relations... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 σελίδες
...closest thickets 'tis concealed ; Sometimes in hedge luxuriant, where the brier, The bramble, and the plum-tree branch Warp through the thorn, surmounted...flowers Of climbing vetch, and honeysuckle wild." GRAHAME. The following lines were written by Cowper on a Goldfinch starved to death in its cage. The... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 σελίδες
...closest thickets 'tis conceal'd, Sometimes in hedge luxuriant, where the brier, The bramble, and the plum-tree branch, Warp through the thorn, surmounted...the flowers Of climbing vetch and honey-suckle wild. The Cannach tufts mentioned in these lines are the spikes of the Cottongrass, EriopJiorum, a native... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1852 - 652 σελίδες
...closest thickets 'tis conceal'd; Sometimes in hedge luxuriant, where the brier, The bramble, and the plum-tree branch, Warp through the thorn, surmounted...flowers Of climbing vetch, and honeysuckle wild." The notes of the goldfinch are not loud, but sweet in an uncommon degree. It is extremely mild and... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1855 - 110 σελίδες
...gale; Sometimes in closest thickets 'tis conceal'd; Sometimes in hedge luxuriant, where the brier. Tile bramble, and the crooked plum-tree branch, "Warp through...honeysuckle wild, All undefaced by Art's deforming hund. But mark the pretty bird himself! how light And quick his every motion, every note! How beautiful... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1856 - 362 σελίδες
...closest thickets 'tis conceal'd ; Sonetimes in hedge luxuriant, where the brier, The bramble, and the plum-tree branch, Warp through the thorn, surmounted...honeysuckle wild, All undefaced by art's deforming hand. 870 But mark the pretty bird himself ! how light, And quick, his every motion, every note ! How beautiful... | |
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The goldfinch weaves, with willow down inlaid, And cannach tufts, his wonderful abode. Sometimes, suspended at the limber end Of plane-tree spray, among the broad-leaved shoots, The tiny hammock swings to every gale ; Sometimes in closest thickets 'tis... 
