 O columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ? 0 cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell! And show me your nest with the young ones in It; I will not steal them away; 1 am old ! you may trust...  Home Songs for Little People - Page 1431872 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Martha Louise Rayne - Travelers - 1879 - 368 pages
...her hand, the first poem of the series ; her elocution was good, and her closing rendition — " I am old ! you may trust me, linnet — linnet, I am seven times one to-day," brought down the house — in theatrical parlance. The curtain was closed to be opened on a tableau... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1880 - 296 pages
...Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ; 0 Cuckoo-pint ! toll me the purple clapper, That hangs in your clear, green bell. And show me your nest with the...me, Linnet, Linnet, — I am seven times one to-day. JEAN INGELOW. * 73 • HIAWATHA'S HUNTING. THEN the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ! 0 Cuckoo-pint ! toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your as a veil, down to the slender waist Her unadorned...curls her tendrils, which implied Subjection, but JEAN INCELOW. WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - Poetry - 1880 - 812 pages
...wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ! 0 cuckoo pint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell ! And show me your nest with the...me, linnet, linnet — I am seven times one to-day. SEVEN TIMES TWO. ROMANCE. You bells in the steeple, ring, ring out your changes, How many soever they... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell! O cuckoo-pint! toll me the purple clapper And show me your nest, with the young ones in 'it,— I will not steal them away: I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet! I am seven times one to-day. XVI. THERE is a little maiden—... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ! 0 cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your 4 e 4 SEVEN TIMES TWO. ROMANCE. You bells in the steeple, ring, ring out your changes, How many soever they... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - Children's literature - 1881 - 64 pages
...wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ! 0 cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell. And show me your nest with the young...me, linnet, linnet : I am seven times one to-day. Seven times Two. ROMANCE. ~V7~OTJ bells in the steeple, ring, ring out your changes, How many soever... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...Where two twin turtle doves dwell ! 0 cuckoo-pint, toll me the purple clapper ! That hangs in your clear green bell. And show me your nest with the young...me, linnet, linnet — I am seven times one to-day. Jean Ingelow. BEAUTIFUL GRANDMAMMA. Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair ; Never was lady more sweet... | |
 | Amanda Bartlett Harris - Birthday books - 1881 - 324 pages
...Grasshopper Yellow, The fast little fellow, Has very long whiskers and legs cut a dash on. JULY i8TH. And show me your nest with the young ones in it, I...trust me, linnet, linnet, I am seven times one to-day. JULY Tgth. What does little baby say, In his bed at peep of day ? Baby says like little birdie, Let... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - Children's literature - 1881 - 390 pages
...wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell! 0 cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell ! And show me your nest with the...ones in it ; I will not steal them away ; 1 am old I you may trust me, linnet, linnet — I am seven times one to-day. SEVEN TIMES TWO. ROMANCE. You bells... | |
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