 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pagine
...to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor,...is — Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. J. THOMSON (The Seasons). 1001. RULE BRITANNIA WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's... | |
 | Lucy H. Soutar - 1909 - 252 pagine
...trusted Man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth, then, hopping o'er the floor,...wonders where he is, Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet." Day by day we have noted the lengthening light, and on this... | |
 | 1909 - 324 pagine
...unfortunately, sometimes he falls a prey to the wily cat. Thomson describes him in "The Seasons " : .... then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is. His confiding manner has nodoubt A Robin's 3V>sl in an-Old Hat contributed to the superstitious, and... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 pagine
...brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, *5 others' hands; for, though now old table crumbs Attract his slender feet The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | George Douglas - 1911 - 212 pagine
...human habitation in winter : — Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor,...is — Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The little picture is instinct with life. And very much finer and more highly-finished,... | |
 | 1911 - 784 pagine
...trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor,...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... | |
 | 1912 - 396 pagine
...to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes...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... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 424 pagine
...trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor,...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is.8 He overflowed with kindliness to everything sensible to pleasure and pain. If a century had to... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pagine
...trusted man His annual visit. Half -afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor,...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... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 pagine
...trusted man His annual visit. Hau" afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights Was it. a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that...or sleep? 80 ODE ON A GRECIAN URN (Written 1819) i 256 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare Though... | |
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Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er... 
