 | James Sargant Storer - Buckinghamshire (England) - 1822 - 110 pages
...nails or spikes, in order to blunt the edge of any weapon that may be raised against it. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'4 The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | William Eastmead - Caves - 1824 - 536 pages
...athwart the stream," forcibly recal to the recollection, Cowper's beautiful lines on Yardley Oak : — Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball "Which babes...-with, and the thievish jay Seeking her food, with case might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing- down Thy yet close folded latitude... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 pages
...by an apology : — you are a lady, and can excuse A BLUSH. 226 THE ACORN; AN APOLOGUE. " Thou wast a bauble once ; — a cup and ball, Which babes might play with : ****** Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root ; — and time has... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...truth from Heaven, created thing adore, I might with reverence kneel, and worship thec. * • • * * Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 pages
...thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. YAHDLEY OAK. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs And... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 326 pages
...gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscrib'd, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, 'Which babes might...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The Auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | Poetic gleanings - Children's poetry - 1827 - 182 pages
...and long ! YARDLY OAK. BY COWPER. THOU wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might wish to play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish Jav, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin 'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscrib'd, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once, a cu p and ball, Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut, that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of houghs,... | |
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The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. 
