 Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every...  The British Prose Writers - Page 291821Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 474 pages
...beholds : the great sun puts on his amber light, the mower •whets his scythe, the milkmaid sings, " And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." But the man of a melancholy disposition, IL PENSEROSO, chooses the evening for his walk, as most suitable... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1842 - 516 pages
...he beholds. The great sun puts on his amber light, the mower whets his scythe, the milkmaid sings, " And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." But the man of a melancholy disposition, IL PENSEROSO, chooses the evening for his walk, as most suitable... | |
 | Universalism - 1854 - 444 pages
...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." In this mosaic of sunrise, we find, on analysis, nothing but pebbles, not a jewel, not a rose ; there... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." If I dared to be as rash as Addlson, I woqld say that this poem has for Englishmen the advantage of... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singcth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." These lines exhibits several instances of the mode in which Milton, a great master of rhythm, sought... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, 4 Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, 4 Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, 4 Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale 4 Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip... | |
 | Margaret Thornley - Education - 1846 - 420 pages
...horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn ; While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blythe, And the mower...shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." . At another time he enumerates the picturesque effects — " Now Morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern... | |
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