 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pagina’s
...glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark high poised in the air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear), And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 pagina’s
...his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. 3 So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | J. C. - 1860 - 218 pagina’s
...through his glowing hands. And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air. Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | J. C. - 1860 - 196 pagina’s
...glowing hands. And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. •A .' So the sweet lark, high (wised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hcar,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pagina’s
...Rock'd with the billow to and fro, Soon as her well-known voice he heard So the sweet lark, high poised in air, • Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest:— The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pagina’s
...through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear — And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pagina’s
...through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest : — The noblest captain in the British fleet Might... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pagina’s
...his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest...captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain ; Let me kiss... | |
 | 1863 - 362 pagina’s
...*SB^ft ^C-*|^ii'-j*§i - .». in air, , to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he bear) t And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain ; Let me kiss... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 pagina’s
...Tutto sf rrato nolle sacre penne, Come a suo nido la lieto Colombo". " So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast; If chance his mate's shrill call to hear, And drops at once into her nest". Politian is much resembled by Gray in descriptive poetry,... | |
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So the sweet lark, high poised in air. Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear), And drops at once into her nest. 
