 Chapman says (Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America) 'it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats. ... Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume, but in purity and sweetness of tone and exquisite modulation they are unequalled.  Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America - Pagina 398door Frank Michler Chapman - 1895 - 421 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Frank Michler Chapman - 1895 - 498 pagina’s
...Still, it often finds seclusion enough along shrubby roadsides, and may so far doff its hermit-traits as to approach dwellings, where its attractive lightness...expression, go beyond any woods music we ever hear. The RED-WINGED THRUSH (760. Turdus iliacus), a European species, is of accidental occurrence in Greenland.... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1971 - 408 pagina’s
...Birds of Eastern North America) "it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats. ... Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume,...sweetness of tone and exquisite modulation they are unequalled." Its "water-dripping song" is justly celebrated. 360. The following lines were stimulated... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1962 - 100 pagina’s
...Birds of Eastern North America) 'it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats. ... Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume,...sweetness of tone and exquisite modulation they are unequalled.' Its 'water-dripping song' is justly celebrated. 360. The following lines were stimulated... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1964 - 136 pagina’s
...Birds of Eastern North America) 'it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats. ... Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume,...sweetness of tone and exquisite modulation they are unequalled'. Its 'water-dripping song' is justly celebrated. 360. The following lines were stimulated... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 pagina’s
...Birds of Eastern North America), 'it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats. . . . Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume,...sweetness of tone and exquisite modulation they are unequalled.' Its 'water-dripping song' is justly celebrated." John Hollander, in his brilliant The... | |
 | Lawrence Rainey - 2005 - 1217 pagina’s
...Birds of Eastern North America) "it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats. ... Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume,...tone and exquisite modulation they are unequaled." Its "waterdripping song" is justly celebrated. 360. The following lines were stimulated by the account... | |
 | Anthony Mellors - 2005 - 402 pagina’s
...Birds of Eastern North America) "it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats ... Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume,...sweetness of tone and exquisite modulation they are unequalled". Its "water-dripping song" is justly celebrated.' (TS Eliot, Selected Poems (London: Faber... | |
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