 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And, cropful, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, * The... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...chimney's length BasKS at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...chimney's length, BasKS at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | 1855 - 540 pages
...length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of door he Sings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 64 pages
...length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. L ALLEGRO. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...chimney's length BasKS at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men ; Where... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop -full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. — Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first hed than to rise. His heuse was known to all the vagrant train, whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
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When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full... 
