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... Crown Jewels or Gems of Literature Art and Music - Page 128by Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 632 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Manning - 1880 - 260 pages
...tender blade, that feared the chilling blast, Escapes unhurt beneath so warm a veil. WINTER MUSIC. .„ HE poetry of earth is never dead : ^ When all the...drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. THE BRAMBLE. THE BRAMBLE. ' But thou, wild bramble ! back dost bring, In all their beauteous... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...retir'st to endless rest. From the Greek of ANACREON, by ABRAHAM COWLEY. THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead ; When all the birds...drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. JOHN KEATS. THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. GKEEN little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1876 - 610 pages
...that it was a time-trial. The subject proposed was— . THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET. KEATS. The poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from our stove there shrills The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness... | |
| Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead: That is the grasshopper's, — ho takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never...drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. John Keats, England, 1T96-1S21. 52. The Rhodora.* In May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes,... | |
| 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...drowsiness 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... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...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...drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. JOHN ККАТЧ THE GRASSHOPPER АШ) CRICKET. GREEN little vaulter m the sunny grass, Catching... | |
| Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 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 Dunham Deshler - 1879 - 334 pages
...sweet simplicity, and were inspired by the familiar tones of the grasshopper and cricket : " ' The poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...drowsiness half 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... | |
| David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ccci i Off THE GRASSffOPPEK AND CRICKET. TPHE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. CCCIII TTAPPY is England! I could be content 11 To feel no other breezes than are blown Through... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pages
...workings ? Listen awhile, ye nations, and be dumb. JOHN KEATS. 461 v. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. The poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...drowsiness 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... | |
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