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Mar 19, 2009 · The bird that occupies the second place to the nightingale in British poetical literature is the skylark, a pastoral bird as the Philomel is an arboreal,—a creature of light and air and motion, the companion of the plowman, the shepherd, the harvester,—whose nest is in the stubble and whose tryst is in the clouds.
Mar 1, 2019 · the writings of john burroughs, vol. iii by john burroughs contents preface birds and poets
Oct 31, 2009 · Bird and bough [poems] by Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. ... HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the ...
Jul 12, 2008 · Very alert and sensitive birds, like the warblers, often bury the strange egg beneath a second nest built on top of the old. A lady living in the suburbs of an Eastern city heard cries of distress one morning from a pair of house wrens that had a nest in a honeysuckle on her front porch.
Apr 10, 2009 · Birds and poets, with other papers. by. Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Publication date. 1895. Topics. Birds, Nature, American essays. Publisher. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
Feb 23, 2009 · English. Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Myerson, J. Whitman. Birds and poets -- Touches of nature -- A bird medley -- April -- Spring poems -- Our rural diversity -- Before genius -- Before beauty -- Emerson -- The flight of the eagle. Addeddate.
In an open space in the woods I see a pair of cedar-birds collecting moss from the top of a dead tree. Following the direction in which they fly, I soon discover the nest placed in the fork of a small soft maple, which stands amid a thick growth of wild cherry-trees and young beeches.
