 | 1826 - 952 pàgines
...blooms, And chirps his gratitude oa round he roams ; While richest roses, though in crimson dreit, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly — Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; Like scales of burnish'd gold... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 pàgines
...glittering dews, The flower-fed Humming-bird his round pursues; Sips with inserted tube, the honeyed blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams;...Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast; What heav'nly tints in mingling radiance fly! Each rapid movement gives a different dye; Like scales of... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 372 pàgines
...glittering dews, The flower-ted humming bird his round pursues ; Sips, with inserted tube, the honey'd blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams...Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast ; What heav'nly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; Like scales of... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - 576 pàgines
...glittering dews, The flower-fed Humming Bird his round pursues ; Sips, with inserted tube, the honey'd blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams...splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; Like scales of burnish'd gold they... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1833 - 430 pàgines
...insects or the sweets, and agitating their wings with such rapidity as to render them invisible. " While richest roses though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of their gorgeous breast." Afar in the forest is heard the barking of the large beaked toucans, the scream... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 pàgines
...blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams ; While richest roses, though in crimson dress'd, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast ; What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye, Like scales of burnish'd gold they... | |
 | 1836 - 386 pàgines
...glittering dews, The flower-fed humming-bird his round pursues, Sips with inserted tube, the honeyed blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams!...splendour of his gorgeous breast; What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly! Each rapid movement gives a different dye; Like scales of burnished gold the... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 434 pàgines
...glittering dews, The flower-fed bumming-bird his round pursues ; — Sips, with inserted tube, the honey 'd blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams...splendour of his gorgeous breast What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; Like scales of burnish'd gold,... | |
 | Wood-notes - 1842 - 160 pàgines
...glittering dews, The flower-fed Humming-bird his round pursues ; Sips, with inserted tube, the honey'd blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams...splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; Like scales of burnish'd gold they... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1844 - 558 pàgines
...eastern main, Then thro' our woodbines, wet with glittering dews, The flower-fed Humming-bird his flight pursues, Sips with inserted tube the honied blooms,...splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly, Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; Like scales of burnished gold they... | |
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Sips, with inserted tube, the honey'd blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams ; While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement... 
