 | Edward Pett Thompson - Animal behavior - 1851 - 434 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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,... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 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 family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...pays to trusted man His annual visit, Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, this earth. smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 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 lie is; Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all his smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is — Till, more familiar... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 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, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1853 - 408 pages
...to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 250 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,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...pays to trusted man His aunual 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,... | |
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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... 
