 | Eldridge Eugene Fish - 1890 - 272 Seiten
...the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all." NESTING HABITS OF BIRDS. And oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day ; How true she warped the moss to form the nest, And modeled it within with wood and clay. And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 536 Seiten
...morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day, How true she warped the moss to make her nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay. And by-and-by, like heath-bells gilt with... | |
 | William John Clarke Miller - 1899 - 248 Seiten
...merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy ; and olt, an unintending guest 1 watched her secret toils from day to day : How true...nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay." From my earliest childhood, I have been quite familiar with bird-life. My father was a lover of birds... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1900 - 826 Seiten
...is interpreted a poetic beauty for all bird nests as the poet enhancingly sings : An oft unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day; How true she warped the moss to form the nest, And modeled it within with wood and clay. And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew.... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1900 - 824 Seiten
...is interpreted a poetic beauty for all bird nests as the poet enhancingly sings : An oft unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day ; How true she warped the moss to form the nest, And modeled it within with wood and clay. And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1900 - 826 Seiten
...is interpreted a poetic beauty for all bird nests as the poet enhancingly sings : An oft unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day ; How true she warped the moss to form the nest, And modeled it within with wood and clay. And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 Seiten
...morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day, How true she warped the moss to make her nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay. And by-and-by, like heath-bells gilt with... | |
 | Nina Lovering Marshall - 1907 - 456 Seiten
...morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the Sound with joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day;...How true she warped the moss to form her nest, And modeU'dit within with wood and clay." Claire — The Thrush's Nest. CHAPTER II HOW TO KNOW THE LICHENS... | |
 | 1907 - 456 Seiten
...morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the Sound with joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day;...How true she warped the moss to form her nest, And modell'd it within with wood and clay." Claire— The Thrush's Nest. CHAPTER II HOW TO KNOW THE LICHENS... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1922 - 288 Seiten
...overhung a molehill large and round, I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound With joy; and often, an intruding guest, I watched her secret toil from day to day — How true she warped the moss, to form a nest, And modelled it within with... | |
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WITHIN a thick and spreading hawthorn bush That overhung a mole-hill large and round, I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns... 
