 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 816 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 his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear),... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 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...her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Mighty envy William's lip those kisses sweet. '0, Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 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 his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 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 his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | Kenneth Newton Colvile - 1923 - 296 pàgines
...on the deck he stands. Very simple and very dramatic. Beautiful is the simile in the third stanza : So the sweet lark, high pois'd in air, Shuts close...his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hears) And drops at onoe into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pàgines
...And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. Black-eyed Susan .!/ -. So the sweet lark, high poised in air. Shuts close his pinions to his breast. If chance his mate's shrill call he IKMJ. . And drops at once into her nest: — The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 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-pois'd in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear)... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pàgines
...he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below: The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, Ami 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pàgines
...he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below : 10 The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands @ @ @ @ @ poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his male's shrill call he hear —... | |
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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. 
