 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1894 - 588 էջ
...at the Isles of Shoals," "The Watch of Boon Island," "The Sandpiper " and " The Song Sparrow." IAK THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One...thought of any wrong; He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - 1896 - 408 էջ
...once more : Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet ! THE SANDPIPER A!ROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and...thought of any wrong ; He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1896 - 302 էջ
...watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and mournful cry; He starts not at my fitful song, Nor flash of fluttering drapery. He has no thought of any wrong, He scans me with a fearless eye ; Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1896 - 300 էջ
...watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and mournful cry; He starts not at my fitful song, Nor flash of fluttering drapery. He has no thought of any wrong, He scans me with a fearless eye ; Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 608 էջ
...water's rune. No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon. THE SANDPIPER A:ROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and...thought of any wrong; He scans me with a fearless eye : Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis - 1897 - 540 էջ
...heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds Stands out the white lighthouses high. Almost as far as eye...thought of any wrong; He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, — The little sand-piper and I. Comrade, where wilt... | |
 | Mabel Osgood Wright - 1897 - 494 էջ
...habit gave motive to one of the best bits of verse that Mrs. Celia Thaxter has left with us: — " I watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet...well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I." (3d verse.) x 241 Dr. Coues, in his " Birds of the Northwest," gives a beautiful picture of this bird... | |
 | Mabel Osgood Wright - 1897 - 510 էջ
...watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and mournful cry; He starts not at my fitful song, s Or flash of fluttering drapery; He has no thought...well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I." (3d verse.) X 241 Dr. Coues, in his " Birds of the Northwest," gives a beautiful picture of this bird... | |
 | 1898 - 344 էջ
...my dear one your amber and coral Bring for her dowry, O beautiful sea ! — Edmund Clarence Stedman. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One...thought of any wrong ; He scans me with a fearless eye ; Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou... | |
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Scud black and swift across the sky ; Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds Stand out the white light-houses high. Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, — One little sandpiper and I. I watch... 
