 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
 | Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 474 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, tho' in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast; What heav'nly tints in mingling... | |
 | Ella Rodman Church - 1877 - 346 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 splendor of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly... | |
 | Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 pàgines
...blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams, Whilst richest roses, though in crimson drcst, 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... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1891 - 1194 pàgines
...lldiodoxa iacula. COLORS OF THE PLUMAGE. When morning dawns, * * * * * The Howei'-fod Humming Bird his round pursues ; Sips with inserted tube the honied...he roams ; While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendor of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1891 - 1220 pàgines
...COLORS OF THE PLUMAGE. When morning dawns, • • » • • The Mower-fed Huminiug Bird his roinnl pursues ; Sips with inserted tube the honied blooms,...he roams ; While richest roses, though in crimson drost, Shrink from the splendor of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly... | |
 | 1876 - 588 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 splendor of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly... | |
 | James Southall Wilson - 1906 - 194 pàgines
...glitt'ring dews, The flow'r-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 splendor of his gorgeous breast. What heav'nly tints in mingling radiance fly!... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1862 - 846 pàgines
...the Eastern main, Then through our woodbines, wet with glittering dews, The flower-fed Hamming-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 mingling radiance fly... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 408 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 splendor of his gorgeous breast. — What heavenly tints in mingling radiance... | |
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