 | 1835 - 254 pages
...among the spray, Hither and thither, with screams as wild As the laughing mirth of a rosy child ! VII. What joy it must be, like a living breeze, To flutter...On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy steins of the forest-tree, How pleasant the life of a bird must be ! THOMAS STOTHARD, RA IF Stothard,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1847 - 418 pages
...Hither and thither, with screams as wild As the laughing mirth of a rosy child ! VII. BIRDS IN SUMMER. Lightly to soar, and to see beneath The wastes of...heath, And the yellow furze, like fields of gold, That gladdened some fairy region old ! On mountain-tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest-tree,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 1482 pages
...the spray ; Hither and thither, with screams as wild As the laughing mirth of a rosy child. What a joy it must be, like a living breeze, To flutter about...On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy boughs of the forest tree, How pleasant the life of a bird must be ! In no department of modern poetry... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...To go, when a joyful fancy calls, Dashing adown 'mong the waterfalls, Then wheeling about with its mates at play, Above and below, and among the spray,...furze, like fields of gold, That gladden some fairy regions old ! On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest tree, How pleasant... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...wander by. ****** What a joy it must be, like a living breeze, To flutter about 'mong the flow'ring trees; Lightly to soar, and to see beneath, The wastes...gold, That gladden some fairy region old! On mountain top, on the bulowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest tree, How happy the life of a bird must be!... | |
 | 1854 - 142 pages
...To go, when a joyful fancy calls, Dashing adown 'mong the waterfalls, Then wheeling about with its mates at play, Above and below, and among the spray,...furze, like fields of gold, That gladden some fairy regions old ! On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest tree, How pleasant... | |
 | 1854 - 542 pages
...the spray ; Hither and thither, with screams as wild As the laughing mirth of a rosy child. What a joy it must be, like a living breeze, To flutter about...On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy boughs of the forest tree, How pleasant the life of a bird must bo ! In no department of modern poetry... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 164 pages
...To go, when a joyful fancy calls, Dashing adown 'mong the waterfalls, Then wheeling about with its mates at play, Above and below, and among the spray,...furze, like fields of gold, That gladden some fairy regions old ! — On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest tree, How... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 240 pages
...must be, like a living breeze, To flutter about 'mid the flowering trees ; Lightly to soar, and to sec beneath The wastes of the blossoming purple heath, And the yellow furze, like fields of gold, That gladdened some fairy region old ! On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...To go where a joyful fancy calls, Dashing down 'mong the waterfalls, Then •wheeling about with its mates at play, Above and below, and among the spray,...furze like fields of gold, That gladden some fairy regions old ! On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest tree, How pleasant... | |
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