 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - 1878 - 314 páginas
...creature," but Logan the poet, who apostrophized the bird, " Companion of the Spring," and said: " Sweet bird, thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear, There is no sadness in thy song, No winter in thy year!" We strike the bottom lands of Nebraska, as... | |
 | John Ross - 1878 - 786 páginas
...thy curious voice to hear, And imitates thy lay. Soon as the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fly'st thy vocal vale, An annual guest, in other lands, Another Spring to hail. vt. Sweet bird ! thy bow'r is ever green. Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 páginas
...(Wordsworth.) A weary palmer worn and weak 7 wander for my sin. The poppies show their scarlet coats. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, thy sky is ever clear. " What is the use of thee, thou gnarled sapling ! "' said a young larch tree to a young oak. My son,... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 páginas
...voice of Spring to hear, And imitates thy lay. What time the pea puts on the bloom Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another Spring to hail. THE BIRD. 2 I 5 Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in... | |
 | 1879 - 826 páginas
...Bruce preferred material less finely spun. Or take another couplet of the " Ode to the Cuckoo : " — " Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear." So in measures requiring greater expansion Logan turns attention " To nature's robe of vernal green,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 páginas
...voice of Spring to hear, And imitates thy lay. What time the pea puts on the bloom Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another Spring to hail. THE BIRD. 215 Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 362 páginas
...then more versed in poetry, I might have addressed him in the words of Logan to the cupkfiio : 1 > i "Sweet bird, thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Them hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in tliy year. I " Oh, could I fly, I 'd fly with thee !... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 200 páginas
...voice of spring to hear, And imitates thy lay. 5. What time the pea puts on the bloom Thou niest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. 6. Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 páginas
...curious voice to hear, And imitates thy lay. 5. Soon as the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fly'st thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. 6. Sweet bird ! thy bow'r is ever green, Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year ! 7.... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1881 - 362 páginas
...Washington Irving gives a beautiful description of the Bobolink, and addresses him in the words of Logan : " Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in t'jy note, No winter in thy year. " Oh ! could I fly, I'd fly with thee ; We'd make, on joyful wing,... | |
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Sweet bird ! thy bow'r is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear : Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year ! O could I fly, I'd fly with thee : We'd make, with social wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the Spring. 
