| Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 416 pages
...eleven years. THE GRASSHOPPER AMD CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds nre faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees,...about the new-mown mead : That is the grasshopper's; he takes the lead In summer luxury ; he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun,... | |
| Arts - 1852 - 432 pages
...The grasshoppei too, is now chirping his merry note — From hedge to hedge, about the new-mown mead, When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees. But we are exceeding our due limits. Let us therefore once more advise a visit to the hedgerows without... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...their singing, And float with them about the summer waters. ON THE GRASSHOPPER ATO CRICKET. Тик poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...about the new-mown mead : That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — ho has never done With his delights, for when tired out... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...gratitude That God has been thus good, To scatter flowers, like common blessings wide. MABY HOWITT. The poetry of earth is never dead ; When all the birds...about the new-mown mead That is the grasshopper's. KKATS. THE BUBAL HOME. 367 Here rustic taste at leisure trimly weaves The rose and straggling woodbine... | |
| Agriculture - 1854 - 588 pages
...beautiful adaptation of things to each other, and of particular things to the whole. "The poetry of the earth is never dead ; When all the birds are faint...the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will ran From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper's." So all the lower orders... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pages
...of summer:— " The poetry of earth is novor dead : When nil the birds (ire faint with the hot suu, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown meud : That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury; he has never done With his delights;... | |
| John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...passage of an angel's tear That falls through the clear ether silently. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...about the new-mown mead ; That is the grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out... | |
| John William Douglas - Beneficial insects - 1856 - 266 pages
...Mirth." Another kindred-souled poet, Keats, has also given us a delightful sonnet on these two insects. " The poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new -mown mead : That is the grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...are singular examples of different modes of viewing the game subject by two men of original minds. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...about the new-mown mead : That is the grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for, when tired out... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...are singular examples of different modes of vievin p the same subject by two men of original minds. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...about the new-mown mead : That is the grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for, when tired out... | |
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