Nature Notes: The Selborne Society's Magazine, Volume 1H. Sotheran., 1890 - Natural history |
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... wings and the marvel- lously large retrospect of his eye . His claws are absolutely un- armed , less formidable than a poor Nightjar's , which , though useless for defence , are serrated . From his structure the Wood- cock is most timid ...
... wings and the marvel- lously large retrospect of his eye . His claws are absolutely un- armed , less formidable than a poor Nightjar's , which , though useless for defence , are serrated . From his structure the Wood- cock is most timid ...
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... wings with his lips . " It has been connected from earliest times with sacred symbols and with the state of Kings . Sir H. Layard tells us that Ostrich feathers appear on the robes of the ancient sculptures of Nimrod and on the ...
... wings with his lips . " It has been connected from earliest times with sacred symbols and with the state of Kings . Sir H. Layard tells us that Ostrich feathers appear on the robes of the ancient sculptures of Nimrod and on the ...
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... wings . The white , however , seems to have increased year by year , until at the present time the whole of the back and breast appear snow white , the head jet black , with rather sym- metrical white feathers in wings and tail . The ...
... wings . The white , however , seems to have increased year by year , until at the present time the whole of the back and breast appear snow white , the head jet black , with rather sym- metrical white feathers in wings and tail . The ...
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... wings . This done , he shook himself vigorously , flapped his wings several times , struck the surface of the water with them violently , then rose in the air with a shrill cry and flew leisurely towards the top of the Ben , round which ...
... wings . This done , he shook himself vigorously , flapped his wings several times , struck the surface of the water with them violently , then rose in the air with a shrill cry and flew leisurely towards the top of the Ben , round which ...
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... wings , now sailing slowly round , or rushing through the air with vigorous beats of its long , powerful wings , suddenly checking itself in its impetuous flight , and darting downwards with the velocity of an arrow to clutch with its ...
... wings , now sailing slowly round , or rushing through the air with vigorous beats of its long , powerful wings , suddenly checking itself in its impetuous flight , and darting downwards with the velocity of an arrow to clutch with its ...
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Page 27 - I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 12 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops— at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise thrush: he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 26 - Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 91 - Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go ? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell, Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon, Sweet- William with his homely cottage-smell, And stocks in fragrant blow; Roses that down the alleys shine afar, And open, jasmine-muffled lattices, And groups under the dreaming garden-trees, And the full moon, and the white evening-star.
Page 70 - And then they land, and thou art seen no more! — Maidens, who from the distant hamlets come To dance around the Fyfield elm in May, Oft through the darkening fields have seen thee roam, Or cross a stile into the public way.
Page 70 - Here will I sit and wait, While to my ear from uplands far away The bleating of the folded flocks is borne, With distant cries of reapers in the corn — All the live murmur of a summer's day.
Page 26 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With...
Page 27 - Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay : Ten thousand saw I, at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ; A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company; I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought.
Page 90 - So, some tempestuous morn in early June, When the year's primal burst of bloom is o'er, Before the roses and the longest day — When garden-walks and all the grassy floor With blossoms red and white of fallen May And chestnut-flowers are strewn — So have I heard the cuckoo's parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden-trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I!
Page 70 - But what — I dream ! Two hundred years are flown Since first thy story ran through Oxford halls...