The peacock 'at home', by a lady [C.A. Dorset] and Butterfly's ball; an original poem, by mr. Roscoe1831 - 24 pagina's |
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14 Wood Cuts 66 THE PEACOCK Africa allow'd to excel ALPHABET APPLE BEASTS Beetle bill biped bright scarlet Bunting BUTTERFLY'S BALL Cassowary Chough COLOURED Cornwall COSTUMES of DIFFERENT Cross-bill Cuckoo DAME dance Demoiselle display'd DITTO Dowager Lady Toucan ENGLAND eyrie the Eagle fir-tree Flamingo fleet form'd the Orchestra Fowls Frog Gnat GOODY Goose Grasshopper's Feast Greenfinch Grouse Guillemot Halcyon head high rock-built eyrie HISTORY holly-bush form'd inches India INFANT'S inhabits JOHN HARRIS laugh'd legs length LITTLE FOLKS little Robert LONDON long thread look'd Magpie merry Companions migratory Minuet Motacilla native of America nest Original Poem Parrot PAUL'S PEACOCK AT HOME PEEP plumage plume pruning of coats Ptarmigan return'd ROSCOE ruffling of feathers sea-bird shew singular Snail sometimes called Stories strutted Syllable Tailor Bird takes its name taste Tenants of Air TOMMY TRIP'S MUSEUM Toucan first cut Twas waltz Watchman winter WREN Yaffil young Brood
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Pagina 22 - Saw the children of earth and the tenants of air For an evening's amusement together repair. And there came the beetle, so blind and so black, Who carried the emmet, his friend, on his back. And there was the gnat and the dragon-fly too, With all their relations, green, orange, and blue.
Pagina 23 - Harlequin fell ; Yet he touched not the ground, but with talons outspread, Hung suspended in air at the end of a thread. Then the grasshopper came with a jerk and a spring, Very long was his leg, though but short was his wing...
Pagina 23 - Peeping out from his shell, Came from a great distance, The length of an ell. A mushroom their table, And on it was laid A water-dock leaf, Which a table-cloth made ; The viands were various, To each of their taste ; And the Bee brought his honey To crown the repast. There, close on his haunches, So solemn and wise, The Frog from a corner Look'd up to the skies ; And the Squirrel, well pleased Such diversion to see, Sat cracking his nuts Over-head in a tree.
Pagina 24 - But they all laughed so loud that he pulled in his head, And went in his own little chamber to bed. Then, as evening gave way to the shadows of night, Their watchman, the Glow-worm, came out with a light. • Then home let us hasten, while yet we can see, For no watchman is waiting for you and for me.
Pagina 21 - COME take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball and the Grasshopper's feast. The trumpeter, Gad-fly, has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you.
Pagina 24 - Then chirp'd his own praises the rest of the night. With step so majestic, the Snail did advance, And promised the gazers a minuet to dance ; But they all laugh'd so loud that he pull'd in his head, And went in his own little chamber to bed.
Pagina 23 - Then as quick as an arrow he darted along. But just in the middle, oh! shocking to tell! From his rope in an instant poor harlequin...
Pagina 6 - Bird came, though she still wore her weeds; Sir John Heron, of the Lakes, strutted in a grand pas, But no card had been sent to the pilfering Daw, As the Peacock kept up his progenitor's quarrel, Which Ж sop relates, about cast-off apparel ; For Birds are like Men in their contests together, And, in questions of right, can dispute for a feather.
Pagina 1 - The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feasts, Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts: For their mirth and good cheer — of the Bee was the theme, And the Gnat blew his horn, as he danc'd in the beam. 'Twas humm'd by the Beetle, 'twas buzz'd by the Fly, And sung by the myriads that sport 'neath the sky.
Pagina 2 - ... neath the sky. The Quadrupeds listen'd with sullen displeasure, But the Tenants of Air were enrag'd beyond measure. The PEACOCK display'd his bright plumes to the Sun, And, addressing his Mates, thus indignant begun : " Shall we, like domestic, inelegant Fowls, " As unpolish'd as Geese, and as stupid as Owls, " Sit tamely at home, hum drum, with our Spouses, " While Crickets, and Butterflies, open their houses ? " Shall such mean little Insects pretend to the fashion ? " Cousin Turkey-cock, well...