The Poets' BirdsChatto and Windus, 1883 - 490 pages |
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appear beak beauty bill bird blackbird bough breast brood close cloud cock comes Cowper crows cuckoo dark death delight doth dove doves eagle eagle's earth fact fair falcon fall favourite feathered field flies flight fowl give Grahame green grove halcyon hawk head hear heard heart heaven kind king land lark leaves linnet loud mate Montgomery morning mounts Nature neck nest never night nightingale o'er once perch pinions plumage plumes poetical poetry poets prey Queen raven references rest rise round Scott scream seems Shelley shrill sing sits skylark soaring soft song sound Spenser spring strain summer swan sweet tell thee thing thou thought tower tree true turtle Village voice warbling wild winds wings winter woods Wordsworth young
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Page 42 - Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise ; Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep , Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light...
Page 327 - ... appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...
Page 429 - And a good south wind sprung up behind ; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo ! In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine ; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white Moon-shine.
Page 430 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Page 286 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard, Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Page 149 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 351 - Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him. — And they would shout Across the watery vale, and shout again, Responsive to his call...
Page 326 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Page 267 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver, Joy and jollity be with us both!
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poets' Birds |
| Author | Phil Robinson |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1883 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 490 pages |
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