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 man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is... Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne - Página 71por Gilbert White - 1887 - 480 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Bell - 1789 - 416 páginas
...hour to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale ; To hear the clamorous curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate...swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! — say where 's your hid retreat When the frost rages arid the... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 396 páginas
...•j- And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale ; 7 «• To hear the clamorous curlew call his mate, a~ Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see...Belated, to support her infant train ; /* To mark the swjft in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! — say where... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 202 páginas
...hour to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale ; To hear the clamorous curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning plaia Belated, to support her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple,... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 páginas
...time to steal adown the vale. And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale : To hear the clamorous curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate. To see the swallow sweep the dark'uing plain, Belated, to support her infant train : To mark the swift, in rapid giddy ring. Dash... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 192 páginas
...time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale; To hear theclam'rous curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate...where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempest beat? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 páginas
...time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's t;ile: To hear the clamorous curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate....the dark'ning plain. Belated, to support her infant tiain: To mark the swift, in rapid giddy ring, Dash round the steeple, unsubdn'd of wing. Amusivt hirds!—Say,... | |
| 1813 - 422 páginas
...do migrate, and are still further embarrassed to find that some actually do not migrate at all." " Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, " When the frost rages, and the tempest beat; " Whence your return, by such nice ÍBstinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale : To hear the clamorous curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate : To see the swallow sweep the darkening plain, Belated to support her infant train : To mark the swift, in rapid giddy ring, Dash... | |
| Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 páginas
...or attendance about the nutrition of its young, it wanders without control. $ Charadrius Oedicnemus. To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning plain Belated,...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... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 páginas
...And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale ; To see the swallow sweep the darkening plain, Industrious 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 close retreat When the frost rages and the tempests... | |
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