| William Hickling Prescott - 1856 - 754 páginas
...scosse, e giu calossi a piombo, Tutto serrate nelle sacre penne, Come a suo nido fa lieto Colombo." " So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest." These " Stanze" were the first example of a happy cultivation... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 páginas
...cast his eyes below; The cord slides quickly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) ou the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinious to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest.... | |
| 1857 - 280 páginas
...voice he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below ; The cord glides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So...pinions to his breast, (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hears,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1857 - 758 páginas
...calossi a piorobo. Tutto serrato nelle sacre penne, Come a suo nido fa lieto colombo." " So the swnet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest." These " Stanze" were the first example of a happy cultivation... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark high poised in the air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear), And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 páginas
...The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. 3 So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| J. C. - 1860 - 218 páginas
...voice he heard. He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So...pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| J. C. - 1860 - 196 páginas
...glowing hands. And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. •A .' So the sweet lark, high (wised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hcar,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...William, who high upon the yard Rock'd with the billow to and fro, Soon as her well-known voice he heard So the sweet lark, high poised in air, • Shuts close...pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest:— The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| Choice poems - 1862 - 368 páginas
...voice he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the...pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest : — The noblest captain in the British fleet Might... | |
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