House Sparrow/systematics

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or sparrow:

    “It is getting dark and time he drew to a house,
    But the blizzard blinds him to any house ahead.
    The storm gets down his neck in any icy souse
    That sucks his breath like a wicked cat in bed.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “A sparrow enters the tree,
    Whereon immediately
    A snow lump thrice his own slight size
    Descends on him and showers his head and eyes,
    And overturns him,”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)