"Lapwing" Quotes from Famous Books
... the little larks, The lapwing, and the snipe, And tune their song like Nature's clerks, O'er ... — Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... serves him up at a feast, which she prepares for her husband; on which, being obliged to fly from the fury of the enraged king, she is changed into a swallow, Philomela into a nightingale, and Tereus himself into a lapwing. ... — The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... autumnal eves, Pursuing still thy course, shall I Lisp the soft shudder of the leaves, And hear the lapwing's plaintive cry? ... — The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... The lapwing lilteth o'er the lea, With nimble wing she sporteth; By vows she'll flee from tree to tree Where Philomel resorteth: By break of day, the lark can say, I'll bid you a good-morrow, I'll streik my wing, and mounting sing, ... — The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir |