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 111by Katharine Hamer Shute - 1899Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,'... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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