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... heads are large , neck and legs short , and elbows sharp . The wild Irishman of them all is the great crested fly- catcher , a large leather colored or sandy complex- ioned bird that prowls through the woods , uttering its harsh ...
... heads are large , neck and legs short , and elbows sharp . The wild Irishman of them all is the great crested fly- catcher , a large leather colored or sandy complex- ioned bird that prowls through the woods , uttering its harsh ...
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... , Hopped on the bough , then darting low , Prints his small impress on the snow , Shows feats of his gymnastic play , Head downward , clinging to the spray . " Here was this atom in full breath , Hurling BIRDS AND POETS . 41.
... , Hopped on the bough , then darting low , Prints his small impress on the snow , Shows feats of his gymnastic play , Head downward , clinging to the spray . " Here was this atom in full breath , Hurling BIRDS AND POETS . 41.
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... heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds Stand out the white light - houses high . Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close - reefed vessels fly , As fast we flit along the ...
... heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds Stand out the white light - houses high . Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close - reefed vessels fly , As fast we flit along the ...
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... swallow . The snake itself has not the same wit , because I lately saw a black snake in the woods trying to swal- low the garter snake , and he had made some head- way , though the little snake was fighting every inch 52 TOUCHES OF NATURE .
... swallow . The snake itself has not the same wit , because I lately saw a black snake in the woods trying to swal- low the garter snake , and he had made some head- way , though the little snake was fighting every inch 52 TOUCHES OF NATURE .
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... head of a savage and clap on the head of a fine gentleman , and the crab becomes a Swaar or a Bald- win . Or is it a kind of deception practiced upon Nature , which succeeds only by being carefully con- cealed ? If we could play the ...
... head of a savage and clap on the head of a fine gentleman , and the crab becomes a Swaar or a Bald- win . Or is it a kind of deception practiced upon Nature , which succeeds only by being carefully con- cealed ? If we could play the ...
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Page 23 - All the earth and air with thy voice is loud, as when night is bare, from one lonely cloud the moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 23 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 222 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 30 - Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling only to the Vale, Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours.
Page 22 - Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun.
Page 45 - Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night When the loosed storm breaks furiously? My driftwood -fire will burn so bright ! To what warm shelter canst thou fly ? I do not fear for thee, though wroth The tempest rushes through the sky : For are we not God's children both, Thou, little sandpiper, and I ? CELIA THAXTER.
Page 31 - The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Page 32 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 250 - Or, crown'd with attributes of woe Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 31 - 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.