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" The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling 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... "
The Land of Song - Page 111
by Katharine Hamer Shute - 1899
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Macmillan's Reading Books

Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...hedge 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...half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. HAL LAM. HENRY HALLAM. Born 1778; Died 1859. The three great works of Hallam, The View of the State...
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Recollections of Writers

Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - Authors, English - 1878 - 400 pages
...hedge 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...frost Has wrought a silence; from the stove there thrills The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...hedge 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 with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant w eed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never. On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a...
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Afternoons with the Poets

Charles Dunham Deshler - English poetry - 1879 - 334 pages
...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 done With his delights,...lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.' The last and noblest of his that I shall cite, written on his first looking into Chapman's ' Homer,'...
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Moffatt's pupil teachers' course (ed. by T. Page). Candidates, 2nd (-4th) year

Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 428 pages
...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 done With his delights, for, when tired out with fun, He rests at eve beneath some pleasant weed." — Keats. The following are examples of the analysis of compound...
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The English Poets: Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...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 done With his delights,...half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. vI. THE HUMAN SEASONS. Four Seasons fill the measure of the year ; There are four seasons in the mind...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...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 done With his delights,...half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. vi. THE HUMAN SEASONS. • Four Seasons fill the measure of the year ; There are four seasons in the...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's, — he takes the lead Wilson l 'na lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The cricket's...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...will I From hedge to hedge 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, [weed. He rests at ease beneath some pleasant | The poetry of earth is ceasing never : On a lone winter...
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A Treasury of English Sonnets

David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...dead — "Such a prosperous opening!" he said; and when he came to the tenth and eleventh lines: — On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence — "Ah ! that's perfect ! Bravo, Keats 1" And then he went on in a dilation upon the dumbness of Nature...
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