 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 pages
...annual visit. Half afraid lie first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet." THOMSON. Such are a few of the points of attraction which this... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...annual vi^it. Half afraid, he first Against the window heats ; then, hrisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor. Eyes all the smiling...wonders where he is: Till, more familiar grown, the tahle crumhs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Ponr fnrth their hrown inhahitants. The hare,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...Half-afraid, he first— • — - „ AgRiteKthe window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is^» . Till uspre familiar grown, the table crumbs •— ^if ~ vUgatt his slender feet. The foodless wilds "*^«*... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...robin, which, " Half afraid at first Against the w iudow beats ; theu brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts, and \ronders where he is ! Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet." Winter... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 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 family askance, And picks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pages
...brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askaunce, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender beak." " Larks," says Forster, " now congregate, and fly to the warm... | |
 | 1837 - 738 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 family askance. And picks and starts, and wonders where he is. Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender... | |
 | James Thomson - 1841 - 352 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." But the pastoral solitudes in which Thomson was reared, if not born, told him that, in the season of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; feel. The food less wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare. Though timorous of heart, and... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 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...wonders where he is: Till, more familiar grown, the table crumhs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
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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... 
