 | James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 198 pages
...endeavour to describe our various water-fowl, known as British birds. CHAPTER VII. AQUATIC FOWL. " Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the...your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, And GOD of NATOTIF.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning plain Belated, to support her infant train; To mark...swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 208 pages
...known as British birds. 131 CHAPTER VII. AQUATIC FOWL. ' Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat t When the frost rages, and the tempests beat ; Whence...your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, And GOD of NATUBE... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...ORNITHOLOGICAL REMARKS ON GREENWICHPARK. (Concluded from page 206.^ II. BIRDS THAT ARE MIGRATORY. " Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the...your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such bafned searches mock man's prying pride, The God of nature... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender tale relate ; To see the swallow skim the darkening plain, Belated, to support her infant train ; To mark...led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head 1 Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, — The God of nature is your secret guide ! While... | |
 | British land birds - 1857 - 318 pages
...support the inference, that, if any of them survive, the whole species is preserved in the same manner. " Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat When the...your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of nature... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 pages
...attendance on the nutrition of its young, it wanders without control. — ED. $ Charadrius oedicnemus. Belated, to support her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing: Amusive birds! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests... | |
 | 1863 - 404 pages
...curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'niug plain Belated, to support her infant train: To mark the swift, in rapid giddy ring, l>ash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing. Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the... | |
 | Alfred Smee - 1872 - 750 pages
...of birds which scream past the window make such an impression on the ear as never to be forgotten. " To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing." GILBERT WHITE. The Sand Martin (Hirnndo riparia, fig. 1147) may be seen skimming over the lake, but... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 216 pages
...Curlew call his mate, Or the soft Quail his tender tale relate ; To see the Swallow skim the dark'ning plain, Belated to support her infant train ; To mark the Swift in rapid giddy ring, Dart round the steeple, unsubdued of wing ; Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat When the frost... | |
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Amusive birds! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head? Such baffled searches mock men's prying pride, The God of Nature... 
