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" 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 in her dumb breast flutters and sings... "
The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry - Page 89
by Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 403 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 786 pages
...at his door in the sun A tilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errnn With the deluge of summer it receives. His mate feels...beneath her wings, 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...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atllt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being...— 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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 22

1849 - 648 pages
...little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illuminated being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives...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...
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Poems, Volume 2

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...
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North American Second Class Reader: The Fourth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, A-tilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being...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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 856 pages
...some happy creature's palace ; Tlit littíe bird sits at hit door in tïie sun A lilt like a Mossotn among the leaves, And lets his Illumined being o'errun...flutters and sings — He sings to the wide world, ¡she to her neat." Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how ; Everything is happy now, Everything is...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 23

1851 - 608 pages
...some happy creature's palace ; The little bird iits al his door in the sun Alill like a blassnm amnng the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With...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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 794 pages
...happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in tltc sun Atilt like « MA'ÍSO1M awony the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With...beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast Hutte» and sings — He sings to the wide world, she to her neat." Joy comes, grief gocs, we know...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 5, Part 1

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 812 pages
...illumined being o'errun 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...
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