 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...  A History of British Birds - Sivu xxivtekijä(t) Thomas Bewick - 1826Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 sivua
...infant train; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing: Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost...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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 840 sivua
...on trees. Such sights as these fill me with enthusiasm, and make me cry out involuntarily, " Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat ! " We have very great oaks here on absolute sand. For over Wolmer Forest, at Bramshot Place, where... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 sivua
...wrote — " Mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing ; Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost...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... | |
 | George Herman Ellwanger - 1895 - 278 sivua
...of the migrants among the feathered tribes being classic in their grace and beauty : — " Amusive birds! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages...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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 266 sivua
...Charadrius oedicnemus. Beeches in the long lythe. The lythe was a favorite walk of White's. Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost...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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 620 sivua
...infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wine : Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost...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... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 558 sivua
...infant train; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing; Arnusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost...your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, While deep'ning... | |
 | William John Clarke Miller - 1899 - 248 sivua
...lines on the instinct that prompts the arrival and departure of the summer migrants : — " Amusing birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost...your return by such nice instinct led. When spring, so(t season, lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of Nature... | |
 | Gilbert White, Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1900 - 668 sivua
...— [RBSJ O To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost...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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1901 - 192 sivua
...mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds!—say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the...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 NATUKE... | |
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