 | James Hurdis - 1819 - 168 páginas
...swallow too, my eye And ear well pleases. I delight to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twitter'd to dawning day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...swallow, too, my eye And ear well pleases. I delight to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool ; How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twitter'd to young-eyed day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little... | |
 | James Hurdis - 1810 - 358 páginas
...swallow too, my eye And ear well pleases. I delight to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twitter'd to dawning day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...swallow, too, my eye And ear well pleases. I deHght to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twitter'd to young-ey'd day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 páginas
...with a song. I would not hold him pris'ner for the world. How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear' His morning song twitter'd to dawning day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 páginas
...swallow too, my eye And ear well pleases. I delight to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twitter'd to dawning day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little... | |
 | 1842 - 294 páginas
...Swallow, too, my eye And ear well pleases. I delight to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twitter'd to young-eyed day. For thee, then, may the hawthorn bush, The elder, and the spindle tree,... | |
 | 1843 - 322 páginas
...swallow too, my eye And ear, well pleases. I delight to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by....to be awake, and hear His morning song twittered to dawning day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of that little work, A bird's... | |
 | 1844 - 444 páginas
...the spot. — J. Pemberton Bartlett ; Kingston Rectory, December 4, 1843. Note on the Nesting-places of the Swallow. — " The chimney-haunting swallow,...the places chosen for nidification by the Hirundo vustica, it appears that in the localities they mention, these " Welcome guests of settled spring "... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1844 - 432 páginas
...— I delight to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with an arrow's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twitter'd to dawning day.* But amongst our charming song-birds, I must not omit the Black-cap, which... | |
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The chimney-haunting swallow too, my eye And ear well pleases. I delight to see How suddenly he skims the glassy pool, How quaintly dips, and with a bullet's speed Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twitter'd to dawning day. 
