 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 pages
...pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, He first against the window beats : then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...redbreast pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid lie first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Birds - 1835 - 496 pages
...pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, He first against the window beats : then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...pays to trusted man J Us annual vi^it. Half afraid, he first Against the window heats ; then, hrisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor. Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is: Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...man Hifwmgiial visit. Half-afraid, he first— • — - „ AgRiteKthe window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is^» . Till uspre familiar grown,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And picks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...ready welcome is honest robin, which, " Half afraid at first Against the w iudow beats ; theu brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts, and \ronders where he is ! Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...scatters its hues over the little robin, that, half-afraid, " Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance." Cowper's scenes from nature delight by their reality. We can all appreciate... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 738 pages
...and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats, then brisk alights On the warm hearth, then hopping o'er the floor Eyes all the smiling family askance. And picks and starts, and wonders where he is. Till more familiar grown, the... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askaunce, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown,... | |
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Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping... 
