Bird rounds

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Amid yon tuft of hazel trees,
That twinkle to the gusty breeze,
Behold him perched in ecstasies,
Yet seeming still to hover;
There! where the flutter of his wings
Upon his back and body flings
Shadows and sunny glimmerings,
That cover him all over.

Text Authorship:

• by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), "The Green Linnet"

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                Higher still and higher
                     From the earth thou springest,
                Like a cloud of fire;
                     The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

Text Authorship:

• by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "Ode to a Skylark"

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Skřivánkovi", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Giacomo Zanella) , "Ad una allodola", written 1868
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Miguel Antonio Caro) , "La alondra", appears in Traducciones poéticas, Bogotá, Librería Americana, calle XIV, n. 77, 79, first published 1889

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He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Text Authorship:

• by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "The eagle", from Poems, first published 1851

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• GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) , "Der Seeadler", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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