 Drawn from his refuge in some lonely elm, That age or injury has hollow'd deep, Where, on his bed of wool and matted leaves, He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1331841Full view - About this book
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. He sees me, and...his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prcttiness of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly, fierce."* This description might almost have... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...He has outslept tho winter, ventures forth To frisk a while, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, u [brush, Ascends the neighboring beech ; there whisks his And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...forth, To frisk a while, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play ; 315 He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighboring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With ill... | |
 | William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 pages
...He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the* neighboring beech ; there whisks his brash, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. • 320 The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Alabama - 1859 - 330 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. He sees me, and...stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce." * This description might almost have served for a... | |
 | American poetry - 1859 - 148 pages
...flippant, pert, and full of play ; rle sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighboring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears,...of feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. \ COWPEB. J BREATHINGS OF SPRING. WHAT wakest thou, Spring ? Sweet voices in the woods, And reed-like... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 324 pages
...flippant, pert, and full of play : He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighboring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears,...stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Alabama - 1859 - 330 pages
...full of play. He sees me, ami at once, awift as a bird, Ascends the neighbouring beech ; there whiaks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce." * This description might almost have served for a... | |
 | William Cowper - 1860 - 506 pages
...outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, ftippant, pert, and full of play; He sees me, and at once, swift...of feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. He sees me, and...whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud, With all the prettiness of feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. AN EPISTLE... | |
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