 No tool had he who wrought; no knife to cut; No nail to fix; no bodkin to insert; No glue to join; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, • And twenty years apprenticeship to boot,...  Wonders of the animal kingdom. Birds - Стр. 413авторы: Wonders - 1848 - Страниц: 484Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1860 - Страниц: 540
...hit upon by a much more receut poet, who had probably never read the works of the Malvern Dreamer : " A bird's nest ; mark it well within, without, No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No bodkin to insert, his little beak was all ; And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - Страниц: 306
...Bolls the swift planets in their spheres, And counts the sinner's lonely tears. THE BIRD'S NEST. tox. BEHOLD a bird's nest ! Mark it well within, without ! No tool had he that wrought, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - Страниц: 354
...constructed with so much art, as to baffle the utmost exertion of human ingenuity to imitate them. ' ' Mark it well, within, without, No tool had he that...glue to join, his little beak was all — And yet how nicely finished !" Birds of the same species collect the same materials, arrange them in the same manner,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - Страниц: 224
...keep a watch o'er great and small. — God's messengers, who love us all. THOMAS 65. THE BIBD'S NEST. -A bird's nest ! Mark it well, within, without ! No tool had he that wrought, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - Страниц: 532
...renounce, and hope to be forgiven? 98. It wins my admiration To view the structure of that little work— A bird's nest. Mark it well within, without; No tool had he that wrought j no knife to cut; No nail to fix; no bodkin to insert; No glue to join; his little beak was all; And... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - Страниц: 246
...Stoddart. A BIRD'S NEST. MOST of all it wins my admiration To view the structure of this little work — A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. No tool...glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how nicely finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship... | |
 | Страниц: 302
...in the oven." A BIRD'S NEST. " It wins my admiration To view the structure of that little work — A bird's nest. Mark it well within, without ; No tool...that wrought : no knife to Cut; No nail to fix ; no needle to sew with ; No glue to join, — his little beak was all. And yet how nicely finished ! What... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - Страниц: 848
...'Musse Seatonianae,' to the nidification of the tailor-birds, and the pensile nests of the baya : — 'Behold a bird's nest! Mark it well, within, without! No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cat, . /No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was all : And yet how... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - Страниц: 328
...wind or the motion of the trees, it is made very small at the top, and four or five inches in depth. , "Behold a bird's nest! Mark it well, within, without! No tool had he that wrought; no knlfa to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join: his little beak was all; And yet... | |
 | National reading books - 1867 - Страниц: 136
...Thomas Miller. A poet calls our attention to a bird's nest in the following beautiful lines : — " Mark it well, within, without : — No tool had he...knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, Ko glue to join, — his little beak was all ; And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every... | |
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