 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 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. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the laudskip round it measures,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 64 pages
...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land. » c IX And the milkmaid singcth blythe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his talc, Under the hawthorn in the dale. ti X Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling Hocks... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...aud; ifl fdion jur -5>anb, 3iel)t pfeifenb butd;^ gcfutrfite S!anb ; 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 pleasures. Whilst the laiidskip round it measures... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...While 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 the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures,... | |
 | Reading book - 1856 - 352 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. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures "Whilst the landscape round it measures... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 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. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the lantskip round it measures:... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...pageant: 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. Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold,... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 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." A thorough Englishman, his eye observes not only the simplicity of rural life,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...tone: While the plowman 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. There is a happy stylization here, a stylization even more deliberately cultivated... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...dight While the Plowman 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. They are 11. 57—68 in The Works of John Milton, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 36. Blake's... | |
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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 furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every... 
