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Bashful Gleeson Edward George Dyson	Found the downy couch of Kitty, clutched an armful up, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bereavement of the Fields William Wilfred Campbell	9 Like downy pinions from the moulting breast 10 Of all the mothering sky, round his hushed sleep,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bird Watcher Robert William Service	With field-glasses in failing hand Spies downy nestlings five days old, With joy he could not buy for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bluebird John Burroughs	The downy beats his sounding limb, The nuthatch pipes his nasal call, And Robin perched on tree-top...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Borderland Amy Levy	Round, above, in the dusky air: A downy bird, with an odorous wing, That fans my forehead, and sheds perfume, As sweet as love, as soft...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cattle In Summer James Thomson	careless arm Thrown round his head, on downy moss sustain'd; Here laid his scrip, with wholesome viands fill'd; There, listening every...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
City Towers Inge Meldgaard	Your feathers are in disarray, Your downy chest is blood bespattered, Your love lies dead beside...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cliche Came Out of its Cage Clive Staples Lewis	Before their elders; on their downy cheeks easily the blush Arose (it is the mark of freemen's children) as they trooped, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Confirmation John Keble	Shook from her plumes a downy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cupid Sleeping Mary Darby Robinson	Upon his downy smiling cheek, Adorned with many a "dimple sleek," Beam'd glowing health and tender...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dawn Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall	Some shadowy moth may pass with downy flight And fade before the sight, While in the unlightened darkness of the wall The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy, Written In The Year 1758 James Beattie	Sweet, as the downy-pinion'd gale, that roves To gather fragrance in Arabian...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Empty Ada Cambridge	Of the humming bees in silken petals, And the downy butterflies it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epochs Emma Lazarus	Softened with feathery fleece of downy gold, In all fantastic, huddled shapes uprolled, Floating like dreams, and melting silently,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fanscomb Barn Anne Kingsmill Finch	Which yet escaping, when the Night returns, And downy Beds enfold their careless Limbs, More wakeful Trundle (Knapsack-bearing Cur) Follows the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Flowering Dee Edgett	Downy vines like feathery wings thread; Tightly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Gentle Annie Stephen C. Foster	We have roamed and loved mid the bowers When thy downy cheeks were in their bloom; Now I stand alone mid the flowers While they mingle their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Good Tidings; Or News From The Farm Robert Bloomfield	To leap the ditch and seek the downy nest Away they start, leave balls and hoops behind, And one companion leave--the boy is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hurt Hawks Robinson Jeffers	in the twilight. What fell was relaxed, Owl-downy, soft feminine feathers; but what Soared: the fierce rush: the night-herons by the flooded river...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn 24 Isaac Watts	From glitt'ring roofs and downy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn 31 Isaac Watts	Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In A Letter To C. P. Esq. Ill With The Rheumatism William Cowper	There dips her downy plumes, thence upward flies, And sheds soft slumbers on her votary's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In the Cathedral Close Edward Dowden	Five downy fledglings in a row, Packed close, as in the antique pew The school-girls are whose...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The Manner Of Spenser Samuel Taylor Coleridge	downy wing Was fluttering now, as quickly to depart; When twanged an arrow from Love's mystic...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Inebriety George Crabbe	The floating air their downy substance glides Through springing waters, and prevents their tides; Seizes the rolling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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