 | Robert Morris Copeland - Agriculture - 1859 - 876 pages
...startles in meadows green, The Buttereup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - White Mountains - 1860 - 446 pages
...flowers; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice. And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy...palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...startles in meaftows green, The buttercup catches £ie sun in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf or blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - White Mountains - 1860 - 436 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice. And there's never a leaf nor ft blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like 11 blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
 | Music - 1862 - 432 pages
...; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in ils chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy...palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge ot summer... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf or blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his...being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives." A striking example of both qualities may be taken from the dialogue between "Old Shylock " and "Portia."... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his...being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives." A striking examine of both qualities may be taken from the dialogue between "Old Shy lock" and "Portia."... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...nor a blade too mean Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. -t The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his...deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the egg beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world,... | |
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And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives... 
