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" And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 528
1851
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A Third Poetry Book

1889 - 552 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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The Elocutionist's Annual ...: Comprising New and Popular Readings ..., Issue 14

1889 - 236 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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Harper's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 5

Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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Reading-literature, Book 7

1918 - 424 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

1918 - 2030 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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Gods and Devils

John Russell McCarthy - 1918 - 108 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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Everyday Classics: Eighth Reader : the Introduction to Literature

Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
...green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean 15 To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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Everyday Classics: Primer-eighth Reader, Book 7

Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
...green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean 15 To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement

1920 - 202 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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Story Hour Readings, Book 6

Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 408 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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