 Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is...  Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne - Seite 78von Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 591 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bell - 1789 - 202 Seiten
...bloomy head f Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide! .f While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To...fading landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry ; To see the feeding bat glance through... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 396 Seiten
...season, lifts her bloomy head ?j "'• V^,i Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, =• *''7 The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leafjhelter'd let us stray,] -30 r Till blended objecls fail the swimming sight, And all {he fading... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 416 Seiten
...15? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head t Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide ! While'deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd let us stray, Till... | |
 | 1793 - 204 Seiten
...tempests beat ? Epist. VIII. EPISTLES DESCRIPTIVE, fSc. 67 Whence your return, by such nice instinct led When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ?...fading landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry ; To see the feeding bat glance through... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 Seiten
...such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her hloomy head > Such haffled searches mocks man's prying pride. The God of Nature is your secret guide. While dcep'ning shades ohscure the face of daj, To yonder hench, leaf-shelter'd, let us stray; Till hlended... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 Seiten
...hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempest beat? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ?...pride: The God of nature is your secret guide. While deep' ning shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-shelter' d, let us, stray, Till blended... | |
 | 1813 - 422 Seiten
...rages, and the tempest beat; " Whence your return, by such nice ÍBstinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? " Such baffled searches...pride, " The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide." Lord Montfort and Colonel Delap. — The intended duel between these two gentlemen, we noticed in our... | |
 | 1816 - 338 Seiten
...rages, and the tempests beat ; " Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? " Such baffled searches...prying pride, " The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide !" Most birds, at certain seasons, live together in pairs ; the •nion is formed in the spring, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat? Whence your return by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head? Such...pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide. While deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-shelter'd, let us stray ; Till blended... | |
 | 1817 - 494 Seiten
...frost rages, and the tempests beat; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches...prying pride ; The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide. other of the small billed birds that feed on insects disappear when the cold weather commences. The... | |
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