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" When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching Winter, gather'd, play The swallow-people ; and toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feather'd eddy floats : rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they... "
A Picture of the Seasons;: With Anecdotes and Remarks on Every Month in the ... - Page 131
1830 - 176 pages
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Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 2

1852 - 432 pages
...were evidently about to decamp to the palms of Africa, or the Orange groves of Italy : — -Toss'd wide around. O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feather'd eddy floats; rejoicing once, 'Krc to thfir winter (lumbers they retire; In clusters clung, beneath the mouldering banks, And where,...
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Thomson's Poetical Works

James Thomson, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 408 pages
...his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching Winter, gather'd, play The swallow-people ; and toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift,...rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire, 840 In clusters clung, beneath the mouldering bank, And where, unpierced by frost, the cavern sweats,...
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The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 2

C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...Warn'd of approaching winter, gathered, play The swallow-people ; and toss'd wide around, VOL. II. X O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feather'd...rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire ; In clusters hung, beneath the mould'ring bank, And where, unpierc'd by frost, the cavern sweats ;...
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson

James Thomson - 1854 - 404 pages
...his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching Winter, gather'd, play The swallow-people ; and toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift,...rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire, In clusters clung, beneath the mouldering bank, And where, unpierced by frost, the cavern sweats, Or...
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Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, ...

Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...thronging now, Innum'rouB wings are in commotion nil. THOMSON. Beside the swallow tribe, many other of the soft-billed birds that feed on insects, disappear...approach of cold weather. To judge from their diminutive size and feebleness of wing, it would scarcely be imagined that these could possibly migrate. It is...
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Volume 2

James Thomson - 1854 - 312 pages
...his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching Winter, gather'd, play The Swallow-people ; and toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feather'd eddy floats : rejoicing once, Me Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire ; In clusters clung, beneath the mouldering bank, And where,...
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The Seasons

James Thomson - 1856 - 346 pages
...parent ocean ; in all these circumstances, we find such evidence of nicely balanced adaptation of means O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feather'd...rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire ; In clusters clung, beneath the mouldering bank, 840 And where, unpierced by frost, the cavern sweats....
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The Seasons

James Thomson - 1856 - 344 pages
...circumstances, we find such evidence of nicely balanced adaptation of means O'er the calm sky, in nmvgnlnt.inn swift, The feather'd eddy floats ; rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire ; In clusters clung, beneath the mouldering bank, 840 And where, unpierced by frost, the cavern sweats....
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Doesticks: What He Says, Volume 1

Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pages
...scatters his departing gleam% Warn'd of approaching Winter, gather'd, play The swallow-people ; and toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift,...rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire ; In clusters clung beneath the mouldering bank, And where, unpierc'd by frost, the cavern sweats Or...
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Thomson and Pollok: Containing The Seasons

James Thomson - 1858 - 458 pages
...departing gleams, Warn'd of approachmg Winter, gather'd, play 835 The swallow-people ; and, toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift,...rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire ; In clusters clung, beneath the mouldering bank, 840 And where, unpierced by frost, the cavern sweats....
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