 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 202 pages
...swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds! — say where "s your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests...led When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head f Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide! .f While deep'ning... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...retreat When the frost rages arid the tempests beat ! Ipist. VIII. EPISTLES DESCRIPTIVE, £?Cl 15? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head t Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide ! While'deep'ning... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! — say where 's your hid retreat >v When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your return, by such nice insunft led °~ WhenfSpring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ?j "'• V^,i Such baffled searches... | |
 | 1793 - 204 pages
...hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Epist. VIII. EPISTLES DESCRIPTIVE, fSc. 67 Whence your return, by such nice instinct led When...prying pride ; The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd let us stray ; 'Till... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...mark the swift, in rapid giddy ring. Dash round the steeple, unsuhdn'd of wing. Amusive hirds! — Say, where your hid retreat. When the frost rages, and the tempests heat? Whence your return hy such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her hloomy head... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...support her infant train; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing Amusive birds', say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempest beat? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy... | |
 | Hunting - 1813 - 422 pages
...do migrate, and are still further embarrassed to find that some actually do not migrate at all." " Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, " When the frost rages, and the tempest beat; " Whence your return, by such nice ÍBstinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts... | |
 | Birds - 1816 - 338 pages
...embarrassed to find that some actually do not migrate at all." " Amusive birds ! say where your bid retreat, " When the frost rages, and the tempests...return, by such nice instinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? " Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, " The GOD of... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...her infant train : To mark the swift, in rapid giddy ring, Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing. Amusive birds!— say where your hid retreat, When...prying pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide. While deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-shelter'd, let us stray ; Till... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...for further information on this curious subject. See also the ' Swallows,' an Elegy, at pp. 128-130. Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the...your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride ; The GOD of NATURE... | |
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Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE... 
