 | Edward Pett Thompson - 1851 - 434 pagine
...again for several years at the same season. " The redbreast, sacred to the household Gods, Wistful regardful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields,...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... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pagine
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tam'd full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale 's destroy'd Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pagine
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...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... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pagine
...our pity in seasons of severity. The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets,...On 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,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pagine
...assigns them. One alone, 245 The red-breast, sacred to the household-gods, . Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields. and thorny thickets...trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor,... | |
 | James Thomson, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 408 pagine
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pagine
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pagine
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1854 - 404 pagine
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pagine
...Stands covered o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of tl\e embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, ;uid pays... | |
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Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of th... 
