 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
 | George Barrell Emerson - Plants - 1846 - 614 pages
...whence the sounds of happy content and cheerful mirth came forth. We know that lively season, When the milkmaid singeth blythe, And the mower whets his...shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." Some of the species native to Massachusetts often take, even,in a state of nature, the shape of handsome... | |
 | George Barrell Emerson - Plants - 1846 - 656 pages
...whence the sounds of happy content and cheerful mirth came forth. We know that lively season, When the milkmaid singeth blythe, And the mower whets his...shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dole." Some of the species native to Massachusetts often take, even in a state of nature, the shape... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower wets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eve hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray,... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 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." It may be added, that the said John Milton (perhaps with a view to be near the scene of his official... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Birds - 1847 - 140 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." HILTON'S " L'ALLEORO." And here we must take our farewell of Spring, and journey further onward towards... | |
 | 1847 - 436 pages
...near at hand \Yhistles o'er the furrow'd laud. And the milkmaid shigeth blithe, And the mower «hols his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Str.iight mine eye hath «night new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Küsset lawns,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural history - 1847 - 410 pages
...near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower wets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." This gladness of heart, which the season awakens, has a tendency to produce a beneficial effect on... | |
 | Sketches - Agriculture - 1848 - 422 pages
...whence the sounds of happy content and cheerful mirth came forth. We know that lively season, — ' When the milkmaid singeth blythe, And the mower whets his...shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale;' and with these and a thousand such associations as these, we cannot but feel emotions of no ordinary... | |
 | George W. Burnap - Women - 1848 - 358 pages
...dight, While the plowman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid stngeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures ; Russet lawns, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 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. 5 ~ Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns,... | |
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