 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...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 He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...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, A-tilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...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 lots his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; HU mate feels the eggs... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...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 ; His mate feels the eggs... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - New Hampshire - 1859 - 438 pages
...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; His mate feels the eggs... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - White Mountains - 1860 - 446 pages
...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; His mate feels the eggs... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...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 it receives; His mate feels the egg... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pages
...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 it receives ; His mate feels the eggs... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...And, groping blindly above 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 illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives." A striking example of... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - History - 1864 - 422 pages
...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 leavers, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels... | |
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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... 
