"Mavis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... o'er their heads the mavis flew, And the "ouzel-cock so black of hue;" And the "throstle," with his "note so true" (You remember what Shakespeare says—HE knew); And the soaring lark, that kept dropping through Like a bucket spilling in wells of blue; And the ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... sleep from your pillow, Young dreamer arise, On the leaves of the willow The dew-drop still lies, And the mavis is trilling His song from the brake, And with ...
— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... when through all the land The merle and mavis build, and building sing Those lovely lyrics, written by His hand, Whom Saxon Caedmon calls the Blitheheart King; When on the boughs the purple buds expand, The banners of the vanguard of the Spring, And rivulets, rejoicing, rush ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... the death of night and the birth of day, When the owl left off his sober play, And the bat hung himself out of the way, Woke the song of mavis and merle, And heaven put off its ...
— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti
... Hugh of Lincoln Was a boy in Avalon, He knew the birds and their houses And loved them every one, Merle and mavis and grosbeak, Gay goshawk, and even the wren,— When he took Saint Benedict's service It wasn't the least different then! "They taught me to sing to my Lord," quo' he, "And to dig for my food i' the mould And whithersoever my wits might flee, To come ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... went into the hut, and left me to look upon the green woods through my tears, and to listen to a mavis that had begun to sing in one of the may-trees. I knew he was gone ...
— The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary • Robert Hugh Benson
... Old Mr. Pegfurth Bannatyne is here staying at a 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. 'No likely,' said ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the scented atmosphere of courts. The turns and twists of intrigue attract us; we love to ruffle it in silk as well as in mail or in homespun. The voices and faces of fair women make music and beauty for our ears and our eyes; we love the harp and the lute as well as the mavis and throstle in the hedgerow, and we pore as diligently over a sonnet as thou dost over a ...
— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan
... Mrs. Nettlepoint came in, accompanied by candles and by a tray laden with glasses of coloured fluid which emitted a cool tinkling, I was in a position to officiate as master of the ceremonies, to introduce Mrs. Mavis and Miss Grace Mavis, to represent that Mrs. Allen had recommended them—nay, had urged them—to come that way, informally, and had been prevented only by the pressure of occupations so characteristic of her (especially when she was up from ...
— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James
... thought also that then he would not be beaten so often, and some one would be found who would love him. But who? Not negroes and not Mr. Hirsch; little Jenny, whose voice sounded as sweetly in his ears as the voice of the mavis, ...
— Sielanka: An Idyll • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... my heart, to no joy-shout replying, Restless, lamenting in grief never-dying; Oh, the mavis calls sweetly in drear deserts lone, But in vain I must yearn for the ...
— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
... of these two speeches would be: Si quid gravius tibi acciderit, omnium salus in summo discrimine erit; and Neminem invitum mecum adducam; tibi licet, si mavis, in navi manere; ego ipse sine ullo praesidio rem suscipiam. Notice that ego is not used to represent se of line 2, but is used for se of line 4 for the sake ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... brown As the mavis in May, Your hearts are as warm As the sunshine to-day, But mine white and cold As the snow ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various |
