 | Frances Osborne - 1848 - 212 pages
...:— 'Half afraid, he first ' Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.' I am sure poets love birds, and flowers, and sunshiny weather, better than dreary winter, with all... | |
 | 1909 - 324 pages
...unfortunately, sometimes he falls a prey to the wily cat. Thomson describes him in "The Seasons " : .... then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is. His confiding manner has nodoubt A Robin's 3V>sl in an-Old Hat contributed to the superstitious, and... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 pages
...brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, *5 others' hands; for, though now old table crumbs Attract his slender feet The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | 1911 - 784 pages
...annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset... | |
 | George Douglas - 1911 - 212 pages
...winter : — Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The little picture is instinct with life. And very much finer and more highly-finished, in a similar style,... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 424 pages
...annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is.8 He overflowed with kindliness to everything sensible to pleasure and pain. If a century had to... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...annual visit. Half -afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 pages
...visit. Half afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...he is: Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare Though... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 pages
...visit. Half afraid, he first zso Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On .the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where be is: Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 25* Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...visit. Half -afraid, he first 25° Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth' ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset... | |
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Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er... 
