| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1916 - 634 страници
...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 the flooi^ Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is— Till,... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 страници
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first 250 en I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet wit By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 страници
...thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man 35 His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; 40 Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 страници
...Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky, His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit: half -afraid, he first Against the window beats; then...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart and hard... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 страници
...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...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, 15 20 25 30 35 40 ENGLISH LITERATURE... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 страници
...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...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart and hard... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1920 - 390 страници
...thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. 5. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights...wonders where he is; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. 6. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 страници
...of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights...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,... | |
| Amy Louise Reed - 1924 - 300 страници
...ever wrote, tell how the robin redbreast, driven from the fields by hunger, visits a cottage where he alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the...wonders where he is — Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. After line 252 (in the A text) are inserted in B twelve lines... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 страници
...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,...wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumlis Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The... | |
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