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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... rock , Pipes her perennial lay ; even when the flakes , Broad as her pinions , 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 ...
... rock , Pipes her perennial lay ; even when the flakes , Broad as her pinions , 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 ...
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... rock , their course , To Mauritania's sunny plains , they urge . CHARLOTTE SMITH . HE welcome guest of settled spring , The Swallow , too , is come at last ; Just at sun - set , when thrushes sing , I saw her dash with rapid wing , And ...
... rock , their course , To Mauritania's sunny plains , they urge . CHARLOTTE SMITH . HE welcome guest of settled spring , The Swallow , too , is come at last ; Just at sun - set , when thrushes sing , I saw her dash with rapid wing , And ...
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... rock - beds away , The dark water - ousel may warble and play ; In the sedge of the river the reed - sparrow build ; And the pewitt among the brown clods of the field ; The sea - gull may scream on the breast of the tide ; On the foam ...
... rock - beds away , The dark water - ousel may warble and play ; In the sedge of the river the reed - sparrow build ; And the pewitt among the brown clods of the field ; The sea - gull may scream on the breast of the tide ; On the foam ...
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... rocks , where'er , in gliding state , Winds the mute creature without visible mate Or rival , save the Queen of night , Showering down a silver light , From heaven , upon her chosen favourite , TENNYSON . THE DYING SWAN . HE plain was ...
... rocks , where'er , in gliding state , Winds the mute creature without visible mate Or rival , save the Queen of night , Showering down a silver light , From heaven , upon her chosen favourite , TENNYSON . THE DYING SWAN . HE plain was ...
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... rock , beholds afar . Viewing the distant flocks , with ranging eye She meditates the prey ; but waits the time When seas of mist extend along the vale , And , rising gradual , reach her lofty shore : Up then to sunny regions of the air ...
... rock , beholds afar . Viewing the distant flocks , with ranging eye She meditates the prey ; but waits the time When seas of mist extend along the vale , And , rising gradual , reach her lofty shore : Up then to sunny regions of the air ...
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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 himno 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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