A Treasury of Bird Poems.
Poole, Charles Henry (editor).
Sold by Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
AbeBooks Seller since October 25, 2019
Used - Hardcover
Ships from Ireland to U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
AbeBooks Seller since October 25, 2019
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. XXVII, 511 pages. Hardcover [publisher's original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt top edge and deckled fore and tail-edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to endpapers. Some untrimmed pages. Interior bright and clean. Binding of this rare volume good and firm. Includes, for example, the following: Introduction / An Invocation to Birds / Birds: Nests and Nestlings - 'Birds' by William Blake - 'A Nest' by Robert Burns / Times and Seasons of Birds - St. Valentine's Day by William Wordsworth - 'Spring' by Oliver Wendell Holmes / Bird Musicians and their Music - 'Music's Duel' by Crashaw / The Woodland and Its People - 'A Morning Ramble in Spring' Geoffrey Chaucer - 'What the Birds Say' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 'The Bird's Call to a Lover' by Edmund Spenser / Sonnets and Songs of Birds - 'Dove' by John Keats - 'The Owl' by William Shakespeare - 'Song: "The Owl"' by Alfred Lord Tennyson - / Birds in Captivity - 'Beauty and The Bird' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Bird Elegies and Memorial Lines - 'The Robin Redbreast' by John Keble / Habits, Plumage and Meeting Places of Birds - 'A Town Meeting' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 'The Woodman and the Nightingale' by Percy Bysshe Shelley / Classical and Fabulous Birds - 'Three Epitaphs from Catullus III' by Lord Byron / Biblical Birds, Legends and Bird Lessons 'Eider Ducks' by Aubrey de Vere - 'The Bird' by Henry Vaughan - 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe etc. "The work attempts to bring togther poems that ought to meet acceptance. It is divided into twelve sections, and if the sad, the joyous, the religious, the lovers of classical or legendary lore, the mystic, too and poets and naturalists find no contentment in its perusal, the Editor will be sorry indeed." (p.xii) A charming collection of avian themed poems related to all things ornithological. Sprache: english.
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