| 1857 - 280 sider
...The cord glides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast, (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hears,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1857 - 758 sider
...calossi a piorobo. Tutto serrato nelle sacre penne, Come a suo nido fa lieto colombo." " So the swnet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest." These " Stanze" were the first example of a happy cultivation... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 sider
...glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark high poised in the air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear), And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 sider
...The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. 3 So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| J. C. - 1860 - 220 sider
...The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air. Shuts close...pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| J. C. - 1860 - 196 sider
...glowing hands. And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. •A .' So the sweet lark, high (wised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hcar,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 sider
...William, who high upon the yard Rock'd with the billow to and fro, Soon as her well-known voice he heard So the sweet lark, high poised in air, • Shuts close...pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest:— The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| Choice poems - 1862 - 368 sider
...: The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest : — The noblest captain in the British fleet Might... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 622 sider
...slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear — And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
| George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 sider
...scosse, e gii1 calossi a piombo, Tutto sf rrato nolle sacre penne, Come a suo nido la lieto Colombo". " So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast; If chance his mate's shrill call to hear, And drops at once into her nest". Politian is much resembled by Gray in descriptive poetry,... | |
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