Scud black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds Stand out the white lighthouses high. Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, One little sandpiper and I. Scribners Monthly - Page 5381873Full view - About this book
| John Greenleaf Whittier - Children - 1871 - 292 pages
...fast we flit along the beach, One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along, Tittering his sweet and mournful cry ; He starts not at my fitful song, Nor flash of fluttering drapery. He has no thought of any wrong, He scans me with a fearless eye ;... | |
| Celia Thaxter - American poetry - 1872 - 96 pages
...along the beach, — One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along He starts not at rny fitful song, Or flash of fluttering drapery. He has...wrong; He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night When... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1872 - 542 pages
...see the close- reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, — One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along Uttering his sweet and...wrong; He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and Wrong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou bo to-night When... | |
| Celia Thaxter - American poetry - 1874 - 206 pages
...fly, As fast we flit along the beach, — One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along He starts not at my fitful song, Or flash of fluttering...wrong; He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night When... | |
| Celia Thaxter - American poetry - 1874 - 206 pages
...close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, — One little sandpiper and I. THE SANDPIPER. 33 He starts not at my fitful song, Or flash of fluttering...wrong; He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night When... | |
| Child life - 1874 - 300 pages
...I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and mournful cry ; He starts not at my fitful song, Nor flash of fluttering drapery. He has no thought of any wrong, He scans me with a fearless eye ;... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1874 - 200 pages
...I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and mournful cry ; He starts not at my fitful song, Nor flash of fluttering drapery. He has no thought of any wrong, He scans me with a fearless eye ;... | |
| Edward Austin Sheldon - Readers - 1875 - 444 pages
...the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, — One little sandpiper and I. 3. I watch him, as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and mournful cry ; He starts not at my fitful song, Nor flash of fluttering drapery. He has no thought of any wrong ; He scans me with a fearless eye.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, — One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and...wrong, He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night When... | |
| John Burroughs - American literature - 1877 - 278 pages
...see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, — One little sandpiper and I. I watch him as he skims along, Uttering his sweet and...; He scans me with a fearless eye. Stanch friends are we, well tried and strong, The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night When... | |
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