 What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little baby...  The Third Reader: For Primary Schools - Page 23by George Stillman Hillard, Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1864 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...pliant bough That moving moves the nestand nestling, swayed The cradle, while she sang this baby song: What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of...fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then... | |
 | American essays - 1892 - 880 pages
...The Princess a lasting delight to children, while the pretty cradle-song in Sea Dreams, beginning, " What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? " has never won their hearts. Its motive is too apparent, its nursery flavor too pronounced. It has... | |
 | 1859 - 522 pages
...pliant bough That moving moves the nest and nestling, sway'd The cradle, while she sang this baby song. What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day í Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...pliant bough That moving moves the nest and nestling, swayed The cradle, while she sang this baby song: What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of...fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1861 - 612 pages
...musical ' setting ' which is every way worthy of it, we have said all that need be said in its praise: ' WHAT does little birdie say In her nest at peep of...fly, says little birdie. Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...pliant bough That moving moves the nest and nestling, swayM The cradle, while she sang this baby song. What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of...fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wines are stronger. So she rests a little longer Then... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...pliant bough That moving moves the nest and nestling, sway'd The cradle, while she sang this baby song. What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of...fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer Then... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 1116 pages
...mother to her baby is sweet and simple, and relieves the rest somewhat from its prosaic character. " What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, sajs little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, reit a little longer, Till the little wings are... | |
 | William M'Gavin (editor of The union school song garland) - 1862 - 82 pages
...Wood-mouse, The • - - . . - - 69 A POETICAL READING-BOOK. CRADLE SONG. FROM " XACHILLAN'S M AG AKINK." What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of...fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then... | |
 | 1864 - 576 pages
...other poems. Pity it is that the conclusion should be defaced by such twaddle as the following : " What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of...fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, . Then... | |
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