Swallows, by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky Calm Nature's idle spy, I follow /
In joy her pathways; free and fond, /
I watch the arrow-winged swift swallow /
Who curves above the duskin...
Swallows, by unknown author On nature ever idly spying, /
Forgetting all around, I'm fond /
Of watching arrowy swallows flying, /
When evening comes, above the pond.
See t...
Swallows, by U. R. Bowie I love to play the idle spy, /
And watch, oblivious to all, /
A swoop-flit swallow on the fly, /
O’er pond as evening nears nightfall.
Look the...
The Swallow, by Vladimir Nabokov When prying idly into Nature /
I am particularly fond /
Of watching the arrow of a swallow /
Over the sunset of a pond.
See — there it goes, an...
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Golondrinas, Joaquín Torquemada Sánchez Espía atento y acechante, /
olvido el mundo alrededor; /
la golondrina del estanque /
seduce toda mi atención.
Surca, en el aire dibujada, /
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