 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 burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.  The Natural History of Humming Birds - Pàgina 122per William Jardine - 1845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 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; While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast; What heav'nly tints in mingling radiance fly!... | |
 | 1826 - 1004 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 ; While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendgur of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly"... | |
 | 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 ; While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast ; What heav'nly tints in mingling radiance... | |
 | 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 ; While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 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... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1836 - 280 pàgines
...the eastern main ; Then round our woodbines, wet with glittering dews. The flower-fed Humming Bird his round pursues ; Sips with inserted tube the honied...he roams ; While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast, — What heavenly tints in mingled radiance... | |
 | 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! While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast; What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly!... | |
 | 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 : While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly... | |
 | 1837 - 844 pàgines
...glittering dews. The flower-fed humming-bird his round pursues ; — Sips, witb inserted tube, the honey'd blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams : While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink (rom the splendour of his gorgeous breast.— What heavenly tints in mingling radiance... | |
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