 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1880 - 286 σελίδες
...him. 7. The blood dropped out of her cheeks, as the mercury drops from a broken barometer tube. 8. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, atilt like a blossom among the leaves. 9. With wings folded, I rest on mine airy nest, as still as a brooding dove. 10. Their lives glide... | |
 | 1881 - 222 σελίδες
...in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...— In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 σελίδες
...in its chalice. And there 's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1881 - 514 σελίδες
...in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'crrun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the... | |
 | 1867 - 858 σελίδες
...sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...wide world and she to her nest; In the nice ear of Natnre which song ii the best?" That is not only fine peetry, but true insight. And, moreover, you... | |
 | New York State College of Agriculture - 1920 - 1044 σελίδες
...rather delicate and difficult to raise because of their timidity. JI54 BIRD QUOTATIONS NESTING TIME The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast nutters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature,... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 σελίδες
...reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives." A striking example of both qualities may be taken from tho dialogue between " Old Shylock" and " Portia."... | |
 | 1982 - 348 σελίδες
...sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...In the nice ear of nature, which song is the best? James Russell Lowell 529. A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent... | |
 | Alan Lupack - 1992 - 512 σελίδες
...in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be sorr.e happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'crrun With the deluge of summer it receives; I lis mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the... | |
 | Health Research - 1996 - 208 σελίδες
...notes of her mate, singing in the distance, came to my ear, bringing to memory an old, familiar rhyme : "He sings to the wide world and she to her nest —...In the nice ear of nature which song is the best?" As I strolled on a little farther, two gorgeously-colored butterflies, enjoying the company of each... | |
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The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves. And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings... 
