Feathered Favourites: Twelve Coloured Pictures of British BirdsT. Bosworth, 1854 - 53 psl. Each of the dozen birds is depicted in a color-printed lithograph surrounded by a gilt frame, and followed by poems that feature each bird by Wordsworth, Tennyson, Milton, Burns, Grahame, Montgomery, and others. Birds depicted are the House-Sparrow, Wren, Blackcap, Swallow, Woodpecker, Water-Wagtail, Titmouse, King-Fisher, Woodlark, Swan, Eagle and Wild Duck. |
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... dark Glencoe Eagle ! this is not thy sphere Grahame 47 Hemans 48 The tawny Eagle seats his callow brood He clasps the crag with hooked hands THE WILD DUCK Barbauld 49 Tennyson 50 The imperial consort of the fairy king Wordsworth 51 How ...
... dark Glencoe Eagle ! this is not thy sphere Grahame 47 Hemans 48 The tawny Eagle seats his callow brood He clasps the crag with hooked hands THE WILD DUCK Barbauld 49 Tennyson 50 The imperial consort of the fairy king Wordsworth 51 How ...
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... numerous progeny , clamant for food , Supplied by two small bills , and feeble wings Of narrow range ; supplied , ay , duly fed , Fed in the dark , and yet not one forgot ! GRAHAME . B ESIDES the Redbreast's note , one other THE WREN .
... numerous progeny , clamant for food , Supplied by two small bills , and feeble wings Of narrow range ; supplied , ay , duly fed , Fed in the dark , and yet not one forgot ! GRAHAME . B ESIDES the Redbreast's note , one other THE WREN .
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... dark green tips , And drinks all day and night : And opposite , the mountain high Doth intercept the deep blue sky , And shuts it out from sight . Last year it was my haunted seat , And every evening did I meet A grave and solemn Wren ...
... dark green tips , And drinks all day and night : And opposite , the mountain high Doth intercept the deep blue sky , And shuts it out from sight . Last year it was my haunted seat , And every evening did I meet A grave and solemn Wren ...
16 psl.
... dark green ivy shows Its purple fruit the foliage through , Would I the early Blackcap view ; With sable cowl , and amice grey , Arrived from regions far away ; Like palmer from some sainted shrine , Or holy hills of Palestine : And ...
... dark green ivy shows Its purple fruit the foliage through , Would I the early Blackcap view ; With sable cowl , and amice grey , Arrived from regions far away ; Like palmer from some sainted shrine , Or holy hills of Palestine : And ...
22 psl.
... darkness lours : Thy coming was with hope , but thou dost stay ' Midst melancholy thoughts , that dwell upon decay . S MONTGOMERY . WALLOW , why homeward turned thy joy- 23 THE SWALLOW . Welcome, welcome, feathered stranger Robert Franklin.
... darkness lours : Thy coming was with hope , but thou dost stay ' Midst melancholy thoughts , that dwell upon decay . S MONTGOMERY . WALLOW , why homeward turned thy joy- 23 THE SWALLOW . Welcome, welcome, feathered stranger Robert Franklin.
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anchorite bible having read bough brood brooks and purest bush She builds captive heart cherry-tree-your rows clip his fluttering comes your man-and crush him—no doth downs Are softly DYING SWAN far-off-woods feathered race find no Sparrow GRAHAME green hath heart Heaven horse will crush HOWITT Jack Sparrows JOHN CLARE little gateway porch little woodland dwarf liveth blithe lours MARY HOWITT MONTGOMERY moorland Neath some old nest Old beldame Sparrow pinions portico proper rust quit that wall ripening corn crop roof the lazy root-sprigs trills scamp is basking shrill roundelay silence-there's the Sparrow slaughter;-not a bird softly warped song suffice For exit sung in woods thee Thievish and clamorous think twas Solomon thou Titmouse warbler whip might clip window-and wintry WOODLARK Woodpecker woods or cages wrangle Wren X X X X X X X X XX XX X XX X XX XX XX XXXX ㄨˋ
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