 Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is! Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract...  Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie - Seite 3831883Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 Seiten
...hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 Seiten
...the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. THOMSOS. TO THE INSECT OF THE GOSSAMER. SMALL, viewless aeronaut, that by the line Of Gossamer suspended,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all his smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is — Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 Seiten
...hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 Seiten
...warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare. Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 Seiten
...warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. о о о о о о The bleating kine Eye the... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 Seiten
...warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 Seiten
...warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 Seiten
...hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1858 - 168 Seiten
...warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet." The red-breast seeks an asylum with us and becomes a partaker of our bounty in a season of severity... | |
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