sea-parrots

Once I smelled new-mown hay when we were quite a long way from land, and once when I was watching the sea-parrots as the sailors call the puffin I noticed they had different ways of tucking their heads under their wings, or I fancied it, and said to the captain, ‘They have different characters’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Once I smelled new-mown hay when we were quite a long way from land, and once when I was watching the sea-parrots as the sailors call the puffin I noticed they had different ways of tucking their heads under their wings, or I fancied it, and said to the captain, ‘They have different characters’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Once I smelled new-mown hay when we were quite a long way from land, and once when I was watching the sea-parrots as the sailors call the puffin I noticed they had different ways of tucking their heads under their wings, or I fancied it, and said to the captain, ‘They have different characters’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Once I smelled new-mown hay when we were quite a long way from land, and once when I was watching the sea-parrots as the sailors call the puffin I noticed they had different ways of tucking their heads under their wings, or I fancied it, and said to the captain, ‘They have different characters’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Once I smelled new-mown hay when we were quite a long way from land, and once when I was watching the sea-parrots as the sailors call the puffin I noticed they had different ways of tucking their heads under their wings, or I fancied it, and said to the captain, ‘They have different characters’.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Once I smelled new-mown hay when we were quite a long way from land, and once when I was watching the sea-parrots as the sailors call the puffin I noticed they had different ways of tucking their heads under their wings, or I fancied it, and said to the captain, ‘They have different characters’.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The face of the cliff was plastered with seabirds: murres, gulls, sea-parrots and cormorants.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

Countless sea-parrots squattered away from the schooner's path, dragging their fat, black bodies in splashing clumsiness across the water.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

The girl's eyes dully followed the low-flying sea-parrots.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

In his bleeding little hands he held five dead sea-parrots.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby