 | American literature - 1835 - 518 pages
...bent-grass blue ; He drove his spurs of the cockle-seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket star. The moth-fly, as he shot in air, Crept under the leaf and hid her there ; The katy-did... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...bent grass blue ; He drove his spurs of the cockle seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket-star. XXVI. The moth-fly, as he shot in air, Crept under the leaf, and hid her there ; The katy-did forgot... | |
 | 1836 - 296 pages
...bent grass blue ; He drove his spurs of the cockle seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket-star." From the passage above quoted to the close of the poem, is extended a long series of most exquisite... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...bent-grass blue; He drove his spurs of the cockle seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket-star." The culprit fay springs into the vaulted firmament, upon his fire-fly courser, flinging at every leap... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...bent grass blue ; He drove his spurs of the cockle-seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket-star. XXVI. The moth-fly, as he shot in air, Crept under the leaf, and hid her there ; The katy-did forgot... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...the bent-grass blue; He drove his spurs of the cockle seed, Away like a glance of lightning flew, • To skim the heavens and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket-star. The moth-fly as he shot the air, Crept under the leaf and hid her there ; The katy-did forgot its lay,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...bent gross blue ; Ke drove his spurs of the cockle-seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, o need ask, that saw those livid guests, With their swoH'n heads sunk b The moth-fly, as he shot in air, Crept under the leaf, and hid her there; The katy-did forgot its lay,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...bent grass blue ; He drove his spurs of the cockle-seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens, and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket-star. The moth-fly, as he shot in air, Crept under the leaf, and hid her there ; The katy-did forgot its... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...bent gross blue; He drove his spurs of the cockle-seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens, and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket-star. The moth-fly, as he shot in air. Crept under the leaf, and hid her there; The katy-did forgot its lay,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...bent grass blue ; He drove his spurs of the cockle-seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens, and follow far The fiery trail of the rocket-star. Then away he goes, Up to the vaulted firmament His path the fire-fly courser bent, And at every gallop... | |
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Studs of gold on a ground of green; And the quivering lance which he brandished bright, Was the sting of a wasp he had slain in fight. 
