 The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife...  Poems - Page 109by Thomas Gray - 1770 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...twitt'ring from the straw built The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to lisp" their sire's return,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the straw-built shed, • .-' :.i The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, [care: Or busy housewife ply her evening No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...twittering from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the ecohoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or... | |
 | Brian Friel - Drama - 1968 - 124 pages
..."The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn " CISSY. Dirty animal ! ANDY. "No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care " Thomas Gray, l7l6-l77l. HANNA. Mother, please!... | |
 | Berthold Thiel - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages
...twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the ochoing hörn, No more «hall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth ahnll burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or... | |
 | Brian Short - History - 1992 - 260 pages
...twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or... | |
 | Paul Lambotte, Harry Campbell, J. Potter - Foreign Language Study - 1998 - 456 pages
...good examples of its poetic use: ...The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care :' Note 5 : When repetition is involved, either 'not...... | |
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