 | Alfred Billings Street - Canada - 1849 - 352 pages
...glittering belt, The leaves transparent seemed, as though In the rich radiance they would melt. IT. Upon a narrow grassy glade, Where thickets stood in...a tree ; In liquid fife-like tones round ringing A thrasher f piped its melody ; Crouching and leaping with pointed ear From thicket to thicket a rabbit... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1850 - 550 pages
...large and bright. This green and sun-streaked glade was rife With sights and sounds of forest life. A robin in a bush was singing, A flicker * rattled...ear, From thicket to thicket a rabbit sped, And on ihe short delicate grass a deer, Lashing the insects from off him, fed. Sudden he paused with lifted... | |
 | 1867 - 864 pages
...bosh was singing, A flicker rattled on a tree ; In liquid, flfo-liko tones round ringing A thrasher piped its melody ; Crouching and leaping with pointed...rabbit sped, And on the short, delicate grass a deer Brushing the insecU from off him sped." ****** " Over the glade the ladened boo Darted straightforward... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1867 - 442 pages
...opening canto : " Ttae green and sun-streaked glade was rife With sights and sounds of forest life, A robin In a bush was singing, A flicker rattled on a tree > In liquid, flfe-like tones round ringing A thrasher piped Ita melody ; Crouching and leaping with pointed ear... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...large and bright. This green and sun-streaked glade was rife With sights and sounds of forest life. A robin in a bush was singing, A flicker rattled on a tree; In liquid life-like tones round ringing A thrasher piped its melody; Crouching and leaping with pointed ear From... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1850 - 540 pages
...large and bright. This green and sun-streaked glade was rife With sights and sounds of forest life. A robin in a bush was singing, A flicker * rattled...tree ; In liquid, fife-like tones round ringing, A thrasher f piped its melody ; Crouching and leaping with pointed ear, From thicket to thicket a rabbit... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1850 - 552 pages
...large and bright. This green and sun-streaked glade was rife With sights and sounds of forest life. A robin in a bush was singing, A flicker * rattled...tree ; In liquid, fife-like tones round ringing, A thrasher f piped its melody ; Crouching and leaping with pointed ear, From thicket to thicket a rabbit... | |
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... narrow grassy glade, Where thickets stood in grouping shade, The light streaked down in golden mist, Kindled the shrubs, the greensward kissed, Until the clover-blossoms white Flashed out like spangles large and bright. This green and sun-streaked... 