 THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate...  The Poetical Works of William Cowper - Page 256by William Cowper - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Ainger - 1905 - 740 pages
...Vincent Bourne. Some of us may have read and remembered, I hope, " The Jackdaw " : — THE JACKDAW There is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of...indicate From what point blows the weather ; Look up — your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds — that pleases him, He chooses it the rather... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - 1905 - 434 pages
...builds in our hollow trees, in our chimneys, in our castles, in our churches, in our cathedrals. " There is a bird who, by his coat And by the hoarseness of...bishop-like, he finds a perch And dormitory too." No ruined castle, no cathedral in England, would know itself without its colony, sometimes its huge... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 672 pages
...THE JACKDAW THERE is a bird who, by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be suppos'da crow ; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch, And dormitory too. 6 Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1906
...watery glass, And heaven reflected in her face l THE JACKDAW. [From the Latin of Vincent Bourne.] There is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of...Where bishop-like he finds a perch, And dormitory too. 1 Miss Shutlleworth. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what... | |
 | William Cowper - 1908 - 536 pages
...thoughts to you, Since such a reptile has its gem, And boasts its splendour too. ii. THE JACKDAW. THERE is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of...shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate Look up — your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds — that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 756 pages
...Ilrltlsh navy, like Campbell's Yc Mariners of HnfllniiA and Tennyson's The Rerenge. THE JACKDAW t 1 THERE honso Gerald Newcomer be finds a perch, And dormitory too. 2 Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns to indicate... | |
 | 1915 - 3742 pages
...rivers fair: Nature is always wise in every part. Edward Hovell-Thurlow [1781-1829] THE JACKDAW THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness...to indicate From what point blows the weather; Look up — your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds — that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.... | |
 | 1886
...into hendecasyllabics, and whose delightful " Cornicula " Cowper translated as delightfully : "There is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow," etc. Cowper's publisher Johnson, the Johnson of the " Olney Hymns " and of Darwin's " Botanic Garden,"... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1915 - 538 pages
...clover! Bobolincon, Wadolincon, Winterseeble, follow, follow, follow me!" Wilson Flagg THE JACKDAW There is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness...perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines .3 plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather; Look up — your brains... | |
 | 1879
...partiality for towers and steeples is alluded to by Cowper in the well-known lines beginning — " There is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of...the church, Where, Bishop-like, he finds a perch, MAGPIE, Pica caudata.— Yarrell, in his ' British Birds,' says, " In my note-book I have a memorandum... | |
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