Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what nations come and go ? And how the living clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore... The Life and Reign of William the Fourth - Page 123by George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 868 pagesFull view - About this book
| J C Hutchieson - 1878 - 634 pages
...naked melancholy isles Of furthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore are one wild cry. THE DEAD LARK. AH ! there it falls, and... | |
| George Seton - 1878 - 386 pages
...naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule", and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...and go ? And how the living clouds on clouds arise ? 1 Professor Macgillivray compared the torrent of crackling sounds uttered by the solan goose to the... | |
| Robin (fict.name.) - 1879 - 138 pages
...birds to seek our milder climate, and to contest with robins for the woodland berries and nuts, — " Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...and go ? And how the living clouds on clouds arise ? " MONTGOMERY. Alas ! They came to England this year to share in starvation allowance with the redbreast.... | |
| Thomas Bewick - Birds - 1885 - 462 pages
...Pours in among the stormy Hcbridcs: " Who can recount what transmigrations there " Are annual mader What nations come and go> "And how the living clouds on clouds arise? " Infinite wings! till all the plume-dark air. '' And rude resounding shore, are one wild cry." Other parts of the world—the bleak... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - Science - 1891 - 524 pages
...naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides. Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...made ? what nations come and go? And how the living cluuds on clouds arise? Infinite wings! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore arc one... | |
| Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1892 - 440 pages
...speaking of the departure of the birds, where "The Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides. Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...clouds on clouds arise, Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry " (5). And Pope says : — " Who bid the... | |
| Frederick W. W. Howell - Faroe Islands - 1893 - 188 pages
...became of it,' says he, ' I know not. The air was darkened by the birds roused from their repose.' ' Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...clouds on clouds arise, Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.' Probably the puffin may be the most numerous.... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1894 - 258 pages
...naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.' The Elizabethan poets had almost exclusively... | |
| Philip Tocque - Canada - 1895 - 312 pages
...terror, to see myriads of birds fluttering on the wing, darkening the air and screaming dreadfully. " Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry." The air is so pure and invigorating, and... | |
| Philip Tocque - Canada - 1895 - 310 pages
...terror, to see myriads of birds fluttering on the wing, darkening the air and screaming dreadfully. " Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual...and go ! And how the living clouds on clouds arise I Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry." The air... | |
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