 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...; Sharp frosty fingers all your flowers have topt. And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool ! and now green ice, thy joys Large...and poise Their floods, with an o'erflowing glass. Thou best of men and friends! we will create A genuine summer in each other's breast j And spite of... | |
 | Richard Lovelace - English poetry - 1817 - 284 pages
...; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have top'd, And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool ! and now, green ice, thy joys Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Thou best of men and friends ! we will create A genuine summer in each others breast ; And spite of... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool ! and now, green ice, thy joys Large...and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass." The next extract, we shall make from what the author calls an epode from prison; a series of verses... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool ! and now, green ice, thy joys Large...and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass." The next extract, we shall make from what the author calls an epode from prison; a series of verses... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...night; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have top'd, And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool, and now green ice ! — Thy joys...lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter's rain, and poise Their floods, with an o'erflowing glass. Thou best of men and friends ! —... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...night; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have top'd, And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool, and now green ice ! — Thy joys...lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter's rain, and poise Their floods, with an o'erflowing glass. Thou best of men and friends ! —... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, , And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool ! and now, green ice, thy joys Large...and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass." , • » • • " And the little ode addressed to the rose is also as sweet and fanciful as any thing... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 464 pages
...Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool! and now, green ice, thy joys Large...grass, Bid us lay in "gainst winter, rain, and poise Then: floods with an o'erflowing glass." " And the little ode addressed to the rose is also as sweet... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...spring, a summer, and an autumn, in the limited biography of both. — Gillespie on the Seasons, p. 81. Poor verdant fool ! and now, green ice, thy joys Large...of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain, and poUe Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. The fern-owl may be seen about the middle of the month,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor vetdant fool ! and now, green ice ; thy joys Large and as...of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain, and poize Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. TO LUCASTA, GOING TO THE WARS. Of thy chaste breast and... | |
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Thou best of men and friends! We will create A genuine summer in each other's breast; And spite of this cold time and frozen fate Thaw us a warm seat to our rest. Our sacred... 
