 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...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Page 4061814Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber4 fiend, And, stretched out all the 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1845 - 412 pages
...the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full, out of door he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings. But beside these household... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And stretch'd out all the 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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 pages
...the corn, That ten day-laborers 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, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." 2. " But oh ! how altered... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...the corn, That ten-day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And stretch'd out all the 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...the corn, That ten-day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And stretch'd out all the 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And stretch'd out all the 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... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...thrash'd the com, That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, cropfull, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...the corn That ten-day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber-fiend, And stretch'd out all the 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...the corn, That ten day-laborers 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 out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed... | |
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