Crossword-Solution: BIRDED 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

There was no pony, no grass, no flowers, no bright-birded forest—but the cottage of the wise woman—and before her, on the hearth of it, the goddess-child, the only thing unchanged.

Didn't you see him studying me with a great flourish of deference, and throwing his old, three-birded snapdragons into my White Mountains? If he had been as ugly as a Scarron, now, and had known what he said, I could have loved him for that, for, of all things, I do delight in dragons! Such sieges as I have had at zoological gardens and menageries, from Dan to Beersheba, just to see one; and ugly old lizards have been pointed out to me, and scorpions, and every imaginable object but a dragon.

Miraflores, fountain-girded, Where the trees are many-birded, And the orchard and the garden Of the forest seem a part; In the stillness of thy meadows, In the solace of thy shadows, I await the blessed pardon That will ease a breaking heart.

Yet at a dawn before the birds begin, In dreams, as the horse stamps and the hound stirs, Sleep slips the bolt and beauty enters in Crying aloud those hurried words of hers, And I awake and, in the birded dawn, Know her for Queen, and own myself a pawn.