fledgy

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1. Feathered or feathery.

   Where a fledgy sea-bird choir / Soars for ever

   1838, John Keats, Not Aladdin magian

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   And she who with compassionate sympathy / To so high flight my fledgy wings beguiled, / With answer thus anticipated me

   1921, Dante, Alighieri, “Paradiso”, in Dante - The Divine Comedy - Collection - English - 18th century and 19th century, page 410

   Worlds move underfoot. Where lives Poetry? / 'Look’, hums Wisdom Smith, ‘in the inner domes / of ghost orchids – how the buzzing rhymers / read light with their tongues; or in this anthill – nameless draughtsmen crafting low rooms [...] / or fledgy starlings bathing in their crawl. / I see these worlds – lit worlds. I live by them.'

   1989—, David Morley, Worlds