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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... DUCK Barbauld 49 Tennyson 50 The imperial consort of the fairy king Wordsworth 51 How calm that little lake ! no breath of wind Grahame 52 Whither , ' midst falling dew Bryant 53 1 / BARRY CORNWALL . SE OUCH not the little CONTENTS .
... DUCK Barbauld 49 Tennyson 50 The imperial consort of the fairy king Wordsworth 51 How calm that little lake ! no breath of wind Grahame 52 Whither , ' midst falling dew Bryant 53 1 / BARRY CORNWALL . SE OUCH not the little CONTENTS .
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... beyond The gipsy , beggar , knave , and vagabond ! MONTGOMERY . PARROW , the gun is levell'd , quit that wall . -Without the will of Heaven , I cannot fall . 1 1 GRAHAME . HE little woodland dwarf , the THE HOUSE - SPARROW .
... beyond The gipsy , beggar , knave , and vagabond ! MONTGOMERY . PARROW , the gun is levell'd , quit that wall . -Without the will of Heaven , I cannot fall . 1 1 GRAHAME . HE little woodland dwarf , the THE HOUSE - SPARROW .
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... beyond The gipsy , beggar , knave , and vagabond ! MONTGOMERY . PARROW , the gun is levell'd , quit that wall . -Without the will of Heaven , I cannot fall . GRAHAME . HE little woodland dwarf , the tiny Wren THE HOUSE - SPARROW .
... beyond The gipsy , beggar , knave , and vagabond ! MONTGOMERY . PARROW , the gun is levell'd , quit that wall . -Without the will of Heaven , I cannot fall . GRAHAME . HE little woodland dwarf , the tiny Wren THE HOUSE - SPARROW .
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... fall , she lightly flies Athwart the shower , and sings upon the wing . While thus the smallest of the plumy tribes Defies the storm , others there are that fly , Long ere the winter lours , to genial skies ; Nor this cold clime revisit ...
... fall , she lightly flies Athwart the shower , and sings upon the wing . While thus the smallest of the plumy tribes Defies the storm , others there are that fly , Long ere the winter lours , to genial skies ; Nor this cold clime revisit ...
17 psl.
... fall , And in the old hedge - bottom rot away . Built like an oven , through a little hole , Scarcely admitting e'en two fingers in , Hard to discern , the birds snug entrance win . ' Tis lined with feathers warm as silken stole ...
... fall , And in the old hedge - bottom rot away . Built like an oven , through a little hole , Scarcely admitting e'en two fingers in , Hard to discern , the birds snug entrance win . ' Tis lined with feathers warm as silken stole ...
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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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