 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1906 - 444 pàgines
...voice he heard, He sigh'd and cast his eyes below ; The cord slides quickly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close hia pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 pàgines
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below: ю The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear —... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1908 - 476 pàgines
...through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, 10 And drops at once into her nest: — The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's... | |
 | 1908 - 376 pàgines
...voice he heard He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pàgines
...he heard, He sighed and cast his eyes below : 10 The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, I5... | |
 | 1908 - 464 pàgines
...voice he heard He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below: 5 The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, 10 And... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pàgines
...he heard, He sighed and cast his eyes below: 10 The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, 15... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pàgines
...voice he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to h'is breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 pàgines
...voice he heard, He sigh'd and cast his eyes below: The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high-poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear)... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1909 - 632 pàgines
...through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate 's shrill call he hear — And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British... | |
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So the sweet lark, high poised in air. Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear), And drops at once into her nest. 
