 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 pages
...voice he heard, He sigh'd and cast his eyes below; The cord flies swiftly 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...voice he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly 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—... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...voice he heard, He sigh'd and cast his eyes below; The cord flies swiftly 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, ce, — Restore the dead ! Earth shall reclaim her precious things fr poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call lie hear, And... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly 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— r If chance his mate 's shrill call he hear... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly 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 —... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pages
...voice he heard, He sigh'd and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So...close his pinions to his breast (If chance his mate's thrill call he hear) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might... | |
 | English poets - 1889 - 596 pages
...deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast JOHN OAY. If chance his mate's shrill call he hear And drops...into her nest. The noblest captain in the British ffeet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly thrui'trh his glowing handft, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, -high poised iu air, Shuts clone his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear —... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pages
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below: The cord slides swiftly 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—... | |
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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. 
