Name/Title
Mockingbird. Mimus Polyglottos by Juliette OwenEntry/Object ID
AM2013.3.49Scope and Content
Mockingbird. Mimus Polyglottos by Juliette Owen. Article or Book Chapter: Mockingbird. Mimus Polyglottos. By Juliette A. Owen. 12 pages. Typewritten with handwritten editing. similar to 13.3.39 chapters.Context
Mockingbird.
Mimus Polyglottos.
"Then from a neighboring thicket, the Mockingbird, wildest of singers.
Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
Plaintive at first were the tones and sad; then soaring to madness
Seemed they to follow or guild the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard in sorrowful, low lamentation;
Till, having gathered them all, he flung them aboard in derisi on,
As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops
Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches.
Longfellow.
Mockingbird,- bird of four hundred tongues
"This unrivalled Orpheus of the forest and natural wonder of America,...like the Nightingale, is destitute of brilliant plumage, but his form is beautiful, delicate and symmetrical in the proportions. His motions are easy, rapid and graceful, perpetually animated with a playful caprice and a look that appears full of shrewdness and intelligence. He listens with silent attention to each passing sound, treasures up lessons tating with exactness, both in measureLexicon
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
BirdsSearch Terms
Mockingbird by Juliette Owen, St. Joseph History, Owen Sisters, St. Joseph AuthorsRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Juliette Owen