 | 1909 - 228 pages
...and the blue heavens over all. As he gazed through tears for his dead brother, a bird began to sing: A lovely bird with azure wings, And song that said...thousand things, And seemed to say them all for me. The gospel sheds upon the prisoner the ray of light, uncovers to him the glad sky, thrills him with... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pages
...But through the crevice where it came That bird was perched, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon the tree; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, 270 And seemed to say them all for me ! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pages
...through the crevice where it came 265 That bird was perched, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon the tree; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song...thousand things, And seemed to say them all for me! 270 I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more: It seemed like me to want a mate,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...But through the crevice where it came That bird was perch'd, as fond and tame. And tamer than upon the tree ; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, And seem'd to say them all for me! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more : It... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 404 pages
...But through the crevice where it came That bird was perch'd, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon the tree; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, And seem'd to say them all for me! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more : It... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pages
...bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, And seemed to say them all for me! 270 I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its...half so desolate, And it was come to love me when 275 None lived to love me so again, And, cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel... | |
 | Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1924 - 500 pages
...Byron has evidently become a tardy convert " ; and no doubt the charming episodes of the bird — " A lovely bird with azure wings, And song that said...thousand things, And seemed to say them all for me I " — and the fish that swam by the castle wall, " And they seemed joyous each and all ", — are reminiscent... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres - 1924 - 942 pages
...done, But through the crevice where it came The bird was perch'd, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon ome strange mysterious dream Wave at his wings, in airy seem'd to say them all for me ! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more :... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...done, But through the crevice where it came That bird was perched, as fond and tam And tamer than upon the tree ; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song...half so desolate, And it was come to love me when DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...But through the crevice where it came That bird was perched, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon orge William a7° I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more: It seemed like me to want a... | |
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I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the... 
