 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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 singpth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn... | |
 | 1827 - 464 pages
...Through the high wood echoing shrill. While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe. MILTON. Pray you come? I will; Albeit there is nought better Than disporting i'th greenwood. OLD PIAY.... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...from the beginning to the end of the poem. How differently has Milton sung of the morning ! " When the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd, tells his tale Under... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...great Sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liv'ries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the...milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe, And ev'ry shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1823 - 424 pages
...get among trees ; and have hedges, etiles, field-paths, sheep and oxen, and other pastoral amenities: Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms on hillocks green ; While the plowman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, ' •'• • t And the milkmaid singeth blithe,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...clouds in thousand liveries dight, While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd hind, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale , Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasure*.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...his state, Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight, While the plowman , Rescued from death by force, though pale and every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures,... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 406 pages
...Fauns ; nought but simple husband-men, milk-maids, cottagers, and clowns. What a morning scene ! " Sometime walking not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on...While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And cv'ry shepherd... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...hound : Each sheapherd's daughter with her cleanly pcale, Was come afield to milke the mornings meale ; While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.... | |
 | Author of the Buxton diamonds - English poetry - 1824 - 160 pages
...a scene as that we are now wit ncssing. ' Sometimes walking, not unseen, Through hedge-row elms and hillocks green. While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singing blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn... | |
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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... 
