"Mavis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... denied Indoors by vernal Chaucer, whose fresh woods Throb thick with merle and mavis all ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell
... country inn. His whole baggage is a pair of socks and a book in a fishing-basket; and he borrows even a rod from the landlord. He walked here over the hills from Sanquhar, 'singin', he says, 'like a mavis.' I naturally asked him about Hazlitt. 'He wouldnae take his drink,' he said, 'a queer, queer fellow.' But did not seem further communicative. He says he has become 'releegious,' but still swears like a trooper. I asked him if he had no headquarters. ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... chattering swallow, This hearse for to hallow; The lark with his lung too, The chaffinch and the martinet also; . . . . The lusty chanting nightingale, The popinjay to tell her tale, That peepeth oft in the glass, Shall read the Gospel at mass; The mavis with her whistle Shall read there the Epistle, But with a large and a long To keep just plain song. . . . . The peacock so proud, Because his voice is loud, And hath a glorious tail He shall ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... their sedges are Moved on in sunset's golden breath. The shepherde lads I heard afarre, And my sonne's wife, Elizabeth; Till floating o'er the grassy sea Came downe that kyndly message free, The "Brides of Mavis Enderby." ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow
... the mavis That perches in the tree, And sings so shrill, and sings so sweet, When dawn ...
— Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes - Volume II. • Walter de la Mare |
