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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... 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 : He sat and never spoke a word A holy and religious bird He seemed unto me then . I thought perchance ...
... 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 : He sat and never spoke a word A holy and religious bird He seemed unto me then . I thought perchance ...
16 psl.
... deep , When the moon is se wan and so weary , And sweetly awake , when the sun through the brake Bids the Fauvet and Whitethroat sing cheery . BISHOP MANT . AIN , ' mid the hawthorn's budding boughs , Or where the dark green ivy shows ...
... deep , When the moon is se wan and so weary , And sweetly awake , when the sun through the brake Bids the Fauvet and Whitethroat sing cheery . BISHOP MANT . AIN , ' mid the hawthorn's budding boughs , Or where the dark green ivy shows ...
20 psl.
... deep A boding silence broods o'er all the vale , From airy altitudes they stoop , and fly Swiftly , with shrillest scream , round and around The rugged battlements ; or fleetly dart Through loopholes , whence the shaft was wont to ...
... deep A boding silence broods o'er all the vale , From airy altitudes they stoop , and fly Swiftly , with shrillest scream , round and around The rugged battlements ; or fleetly dart Through loopholes , whence the shaft was wont to ...
26 psl.
... deep privacy hid , Like a chamber scooped into a far pyramid ; And there is his mate , as secure as can be , And his little young Woodpeckers deep in the tree . And not till he thinks there is no one about , Will he come to his portal ...
... deep privacy hid , Like a chamber scooped into a far pyramid ; And there is his mate , as secure as can be , And his little young Woodpeckers deep in the tree . And not till he thinks there is no one about , Will he come to his portal ...
26 psl.
... deep privacy hid , Like a chamber scooped into a far pyramid ; And there is his mate , as secure as can be , And his little young Woodpeckers deep in the tree . And not till he thinks there is no one about , Will he come to his portal ...
... deep privacy hid , Like a chamber scooped into a far pyramid ; And there is his mate , as secure as can be , And his little young Woodpeckers deep in the tree . And not till he thinks there is no one about , Will he come to his portal ...
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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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