Naught doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying round ; and small birds, how they fare, When mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn... The Boston Quarterly Review - Page 2261841Full view - About this book
| James Anderson - Agriculture - 1803 - 670 pages
...lovers sleep ; Sometimes, outstrecht in very idlenefs, Nought doing, saying little, thinking lefs, To view the leaves (thin dancers upon air) Go eddying...Autumn fills their beaks -with corn, Filch'd from the carelefs Amalthea's horn ; And how the woods berries and worms provide (Without their pains) when earth... | |
| American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...handmaids) keep Admiring silence while those lovers sleep ; Sometimes outstretcht in very idleness, To view the leaves (thin dancers upon air) Go eddying...and worms provide, (Without their pains) when Earth hath naught beside, To answer their small wants in the drear winter's tide ; To view the graceful deer... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 316 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes outstretcht, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...they fare, When mother Autumn fills their beaks with Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn ; And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1819 - 426 pages
...contemplation of the poet and the philosopher. How pleasant is it, , Sometimes outstretched in very idleness, To view the leaves (thin dancers upon air) Go eddying...'fare. When mother AUTUMN fills their beaks with corn' Filched from careless Amalthea's horn; And how the woods, berries and worms provide (Without their... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...If, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, l<o eddying round ; and small Uirds, how they fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beaks...and worms provide Without their pains, when earth haa nought beside To answer their small wants. To view the graceful deer come tripping by, Then stop... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes outstretch!, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...they fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beaks with Cora. Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn : And how the woods berries and worms provide Without... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes outstretch!, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...birds, how they fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beak« with com, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn : And how the woods berries and worms provide... | |
| William Hazlitt - Art - 1824 - 210 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes ontstretcht, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filcb'd from the careless Amalthea's horn : And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their... | |
| William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...eddying round ; and 'small birds, how tiny fare/ When mother Autumn fills their beaks with cora, FiJch'd is bookes, »hall find his faith was so.f Si. Ulrick....Butler says little. " THE FLOWERS of the LIVES of th C. LAMB. Запиагр 16. Si. Marcellut, Pope. St. Macariut the elder, of Egypt. Si. Honoratus. St.... | |
| William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...issuing out on the morning of h' first pilgrimage, without money and wit When mother Autumn fill» their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's...worms provide Without their pains, when earth has naught beside To answer their small wan U C. LAND. 3amiarp 16Si Marceli»*, Pope. St. Macaritu the... | |
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