 | Migratory birds - 1847 - 74 էջ
...through the wood, To pull the primrose gay, Starts the new voice of spring to hear, And imitates thy lay. Sweet bird, thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...winter in thy year. O could I fly, I'd fly with thee, And make, with joyous wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring." GRASSHOPPER-LARK—... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 էջ
...the bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale ; 10 FATHER WILLIAM. An annual guest in other lauds, Another Spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green,...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd niJikf with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 էջ
...the bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale ; 10 FATHER WILLIAM. An annual guest in other lands, Another Spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green,...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 էջ
...time the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest, in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green,...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year ! Oh could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 էջ
...time the pea puts on the bloom Thou flyest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green,...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year ! Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1847 - 152 էջ
...tastes and habits. The poet refers to this when he says, in his pretty address to the cuckoo, — " Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...sorrow in thy song, '•, No winter in thy year." It is only the male cuckoo, however, whose voice is here spoken of : the note of the female differs... | |
 | 1847 - 762 էջ
...bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale ; An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird I thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. Oh ! could I fly, I 'd fly with thee I We'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe,... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 էջ
...! rough power ; Whom labour still attends, and sweat, and pain. — Thomson. Sweet bird ! thy bow'r is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; » Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. — Logan. Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, ' Sister spirit, come away !' What is this absorbs me... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1849 - 168 էջ
...as the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fly'st the vocal vale ; An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green,...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. О ! could I fly, I'd fly with thee ; We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 344 էջ
...is over and gone ; the flowers appear on the earth, and the time of the singing of birds is come." " Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year!" The Cuckoo is a bird of much elegance : the plumage of the superior parts is of a chaste bluishgrey... | |
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Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year... 
