 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...ears are cropt; Ceres and Bacchus bid good night ; Sharp frosty fingers all your flowers have topt. And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor...joys Large and as lasting, as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain\ and poise Their floods, with an o'erflowing glass. Thou best of... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...nutk'st merry men, Thyself, and melancholy streams. But ah, the sickle ! — golden ears are crop'd ; Ceres and Bacchus bid good night; Sharp frosty fingers...Thy joys Large and as 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... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...mak'st merry men, Thyself, and melancholy streams. But ah, the sickle ! — golden ears are crop'd ; Ceres and Bacchus bid good night; Sharp frosty fingers...Thy joys Large and as 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... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...are cropp'd ; Ceres and Bacchus bid good night ; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor...thy joys Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain, and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass." The next extract,... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...are cropp'd ; Ceres and Bacchus bid good night ; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. Poor...thy joys Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain, and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass." The next extract,... | |
 | John Galt - Scotland - 1824 - 470 pages
...Bacchus bid good night ; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool ! and now,...thy joys Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain, and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass." " And the little... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...Bacchus bid good night ; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, , And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool ! and now,...thy joys Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain, and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass." , • » •... | |
 | 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 and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain, and poUe Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. The fern-owl may... | |
 | 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 lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter, rain, and poize Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. TO LUCASTA, GOING... | |
 | 1834 - 582 pages
...Bacchus bid good ni^lii ; Sharp frosty fingers all yonr flowers have topped, And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool! and now,...thy joys Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter-rain, and poize Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. Ha! — Stag-Foot... | |
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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. 
