In Nesting TimeHoughton, Mifflin, 1888 - 275 Seiten |
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alighted amusing appeared baby bath beak beautiful began bill Bird of Paradise bird's bluebird branch breast brown thrush cage CELIA THAXTER crouched CRY-BABY curious dance delighted dish door dress dropped edge excitement eyes feathers feet fence flew floor fluttering flying gentle Golden-wing goldfinch grosbeak head hopped hour inches instantly interest jerked JOHN BURROUGHS jump lifted looked lovely male manner mate mocker mocking-bird morning motionless mouth moved movement neighbors nest nestlings never OLIVE THORNE MILLER once orchard oriole parents passed peck peculiar plainly plumage plumes quiet returned robin scarlet tanager scolding seemed side silent singing song soon sound spot squawk stand startled stood strange talk tanager thing tone took touching tree trying tufted titmouse turned twig upper perch usual uttering veery Virginia watched wild window wires yellow-throated warbler young
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Seite 2 - I watched her secret toils from day to day; How true she warped the moss to form...
Seite 162 - The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings by himself a song. Song of the bleeding throat, Death's outlet song of life (for well dear brother I know, If thou wast not...
Seite 163 - Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines. Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song, Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe. O liquid and free and tender! O wild and loose to my soul — O wondrous singer!
Seite 224 - It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.
Seite 176 - THERE was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is rising calm and bright; The birds are singing in the distant woods; Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods; The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters; And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters.
Seite 268 - ... wings are extended to the utmost, and he keeps them in a steady flapping motion as if in imitation of their use in flight, at the same time raising up the delicate long feathers over the back, which are spread in a chaste and elegant manner, floating like films in the ambient air.
Seite 130 - That tall Man, a giant in bulk and in height, Not an inch of his body is free from delight ; Can he keep himself still, if he would ? oh, not he ! The music stirs in him like wind through a tree.
Seite 34 - And all birds' passion-plays that sprinkle dew At morn in brake or bosky avenue. Whate'er birds did or dreamed, this bird could say. Then down he shot, bounced airily along The sward, twitched in a grasshopper, made song Midflight, perched, prinked, and to his art again.
Seite 268 - It washes itself regularly twice daily, and after having performed its ablutions, throws its delicate feathers up nearly over the head, the quills of which feathers have a peculiar structure, so as to enable the bird to effect this object.