To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart... Primary Education - Page 1851896Full view - About this book
| 1851 - 786 pages
...And the heart in her dumb breast flntters and sings — He sings to the wide world, she to her nest." Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how ; Everything is happy now, Everythiug is upward striving ; *Tis as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the...— In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ' Now Is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a... | |
| 1849 - 648 pages
...With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nestIn the nice ear of nature which song is the best. Now is the high tide of the year, And whatever... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back, with... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and rings ; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest : In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? Now is the high tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back, with... | |
| 1855 - 724 pages
...With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate fuels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart hi her dumb breast flutters and sings, He sings to the...In the nice ear of nature which song is the best? Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away, Comes flooding back, witli... | |
| 1849 - 390 pages
...receives ; Hn mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dnmb breast flntters and tings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Natnre which song is the best ? Now is the hifjh tide of the year, And whatever of life hoth ehbed... | |
| 1851 - 608 pages
...And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings — He sinirs 10 the wide world, she to her nest. Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how ; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward striving; .' Tie as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue, — 'Tis... | |
| 1851 - 812 pages
...With ihe deluge of summer it receives. His mute feels Ihe eggs lieneuth her wing*, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings— He sings to the wide world, she to her nest." Joy comes, grief goep, wo know not how ; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward... | |
| M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1852 - 358 pages
...love, of which they are the symbol. " The thrush feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the...nest, In the nice ear of nature which song is the best ?" But see how love animates creatures in the spring. It develops their instinct in harmonies more... | |
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