If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to som...e swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laug...hter before I had risen.... When I went to get a pail of water early in the morning I frequently saw this stately bird sailing out of my cove within a few rods. If I endeavored to overtake him in a boat, in order to see how he would manuvre, he would dive and be completely lost, so that I did not discover him again, sometimes, till the latter part of the day. But I was more than a match for him on the surface. He commonly went off in a rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill... of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary and putting up thes...e bells to interest the birds in music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It could not have come down to us so far, Through the interstices of things ajar... On the long bead chain of repeated birth, To be a bird while we are men on earth,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing.... The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »