"Vesper sparrow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... best songs and make the spring more beautiful and the summer sweeter to you. Every June morning when you go out to the field, Oriole and Blackbird and Bobolink will fly after you and make the day more delightful to you; and when you go home tired at sundown, Vesper Sparrow will tell you how grateful we are. When you sit on your porch after dark, Fife Bird and Hermit Thrush and Wood Thrush will sing to you; and even Whip-poor-will will cheer up a little. We know where we are ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... frost-bound valley Comes April with rain in her jar; I can hear the vesper sparrow Under the ...
— More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
... breeze of the afternoon had sunk to rest with the sun. The smooth surface of the river caught and reflected the glory of departing day, while the trees along the shore stood clearly silhouetted against the silent river. There was peace upon water and land, broken only by the sweet song of a vesper sparrow, and the tingling of a bell from a ...
— Jess of the Rebel Trail • H. A. Cody |
