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“And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.”

Littles Eye Delight Brown Feathers Dove

Book:A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.”

Littles Art Body Voice Seeing Feathers Nightingales

Author:Plutarch

“Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.”

Littles Sometimes Shows Black Space Lows Wings Golden Branches Yellow Freak Hung Feathers Wanton Fluttering Pausing Goldfinches

Book:Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.”

Littles Character Fall Bits Voice Events Paper Little Bit Delight Hearing Strongest Towers Leafs Feathers Caprice Receipts

Book:Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

Source: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition