Migratory birds, or such as visit Britain at different seasons of the yearCradock and Company, 1847 - 64 страница |
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arrival ash colour begin beneath bill birds of passage Bittern Black-Cap bough branches Britain brood brown bushes Chaffinch cheer Cockchafer cognomen constructed Corn-Crake coverts creatures Cuckoo dark darting delight distant distinguish dusky eggs favourite resort feathers feed female Fieldfares flies flocks flowers Fly-catcher frequently grass Grasshopper-Lark green haunts hear heard Hebrides hence high tree hirundines House Martin Iceland insects joyous Lark leaves light likewise listener lonely loud mandible melody migratory moss naturalist nest Nightingale Norway o'er ornithologist pale parent birds places pleasant Plover plumage powers of melody Redwings Ring-Dove rocks Sand-Martins scarcely season seems seen sheltered Siberia sing sitting skimming small bird soft song sound Spitzbergen spot spring stream streamlet summer Swallow tribe Sweden sweet Swifts tail thou throat Thrush Titmouse voice walls wandering warbling watch white-thorn wild Willow-Wren winds wings winter woods Wryneck yellow young are hatched
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Страница 32 - Gently o'er the accustom'd oak. Sw'eet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song...
Страница 37 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Страница 37 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Страница 56 - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings! till all the plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Страница 7 - Father bends his eye On the least wing that flits along the sky; To Him they sing when spring renews the plain, To Him they cry in winter's pinching reign; Nor is their music, nor their plaint in vain : He hears the gay, and the distressful call, And with unsparing bounty fills them all.
Страница 57 - Where the Rhine loses his majestic force In Belgian plains, won from the raging deep, By diligence amazing, and the strong Unconquerable hand of Liberty, The...
Страница 30 - Amid yon tuft of hazel trees, That twinkle to the gusty breeze, Behold him perched in ecstasies, Yet seeming still to hover; There! where the flutter of his wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over.
Страница 32 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Страница 62 - And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home; A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them to spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!
Страница 31 - A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without : No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...