Once Paumanok, When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing, Up this seashore in some briers, Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together, And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown... A Library of American Literature... - Page 502by Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889Full view - About this book
| Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1868 - 464 pages
...the snows had melted, and the fifth-month grass was growing, Up this sea-shore, in some briars, Two guests from Alabama — two together, And their nest,...and fro, near at hand, And every day the she-bird, crouched on her nest, silent, with bright eyes; And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never... | |
| Literature - 1873 - 860 pages
...and the Fifth-month grass was growing, Up this seashore,' in some briers, Two guests from AUbama — two together. And their nest, and four light-green...And every day the she-bird, crouch'd on her nest, silrnl, with bright eyes. And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them, Cautiously... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...lilac-scent was in the air, and the Fifth-month grass was growing, Up this sea-shore, in some briars, Two guests from Alabama — two together, And their nest,...and fro, near at hand, And every day the she-bird, crouched on her nest, silent, with bright eyes ; And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...the snows had melted, and the Fifthmonth grass was growing, Up this sea-shore, in some briers, Two guests from Alabama, — two together, And their nest,...and fro, near at hand, And every day the she-bird, crouched on her nest, silent, with bright eyes, And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, 434... | |
| John Burroughs - American literature - 1877 - 278 pages
...the snows had melted, and the Fifth-month grass was growing, Up this sea-shore, in some briers, Two guests from Alabama — two together, And their nest,...and fro, near at hand, And every day the she-bird, crouched on her nest, silent, with bright eyes, And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never... | |
| John Burroughs - American literature - 1877 - 276 pages
...in some briers, Two guests from Alabama — two together, And their nest, and four light-green egg?, spotted with brown, And every day the he-bird, to and fro, near at hand, And every day the she-bird, crouched on her uest, silent, with bright eyes, And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...the snows had melted, and the Fifthmonth grass was growing, Up this sea-shore, in some briers, Two guests from Alabama, — two together, And their nest,...light-green eggs, spotted with brown, And every day thche-bird, to and fro, near at hand, And every day the she-bird, crouched on her nest, silent, with... | |
| American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...lilac-scent was in the air, and the Fifth-month grass was _ growing, Up this sea-shore, in some briars, Two guests from Alabama — two together, And their nest,...and fro, near at hand, And every day the she-bird, crouched on her nes*> silent, with bright eyes ; And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...the snows had melted, and the Fifthmonth grass was growing, Up this sea-shore, in some briers, Two here Sittest love-glorified ! — Hule kindly, Tenderly...love, ah ! we love so blindlv, Philip, my king ! Up crouched on her nest, silent, witli bright eyes, And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...Up this seashore in some briers/ , Two feather'd guests from Alabama/two together/ . And their nes(4 and four light-green eggs spotted with brown, And...at hand, And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest/silent, with bright eyes./ / And every day J/a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing... | |
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