 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 lehte
...shadowy gust the fields of corn: While the quail clamours for his running mate. Wide o'er the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze, A whitening shower of...clothe the coming year, « From field to field the feathered seeds she wings. His folded flock secure, the shepherd home Hies merry-hearted ; and by turns... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 lehte
...shadowy gn.-t the fields of corn; While the quail clamors for his running mate. Wide o'er the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze, A whitening shower of...Amusive floats. The kind impartial care Of nature naught disdains : thoughtful to feed Her lowest sons, and clothe the coming year, From field to field... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 lehte
...shadowy gust the fields of corn: While the quail clamours for his running mate. Wide o'er the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze, A whitening shower of...and clothe the coming year, From field to field the feathered seed she wings. His folded flock secure, the shepherd home Hies merry-hearted ; and by turns... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 lehte
...shadowy gust the fields of corn : While the quail clamours for his running mate. Wide o'er the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze, A whitening shower of...Amusive floats. The kind impartial care Of nature naught disdains : thoughtful to feed Her lowest sons, and clothe the coming year, From field to field... | |
 | Lady Caroline Catharine Wilkinson - 1858 - 506 lehte
...forth, in ceaseless silence, on their mission. In the words of Thomson ; — " Wide o'er the thistly lawn — as swells the breeze, A whitening shower of vegetable down Amusive floats :" and Ossian describes the zephyrs as chasing these "thistle threads" through the air. The venerable... | |
 | James Thomson - 1858 - 458 lehte
...mate. Wide o'ei the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze, A whitening uhower of vegetable down A HI* u i' floats. The kind impartial care Of Nature nought disdains : thoughtful to feed 1600 Her lowest sons, and clothe the coming year, From field to fiold the feathor'd seed she wings.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 lehte
...breeze, A whitening shower of vegetable down Amusive floats. The kind impartial care Of nature naught disdains: thoughtful to feed Her lowest sons, and...the coming year, From field to field the feather'd seeds she wings. His folded flock secure, the shepherd home Hies merry-hearted ; and by turns relieves... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 lehte
...nursing mould, The moistening current, and prolific 14 rain. The kind, impartial care Of Nature naught disdains; thoughtful to feed Her lowest sons, and clothe the coming year, From field to field, the feathered seeds she wings." THOMSON. 6. Birds, beasts, and insects aid in the dispersion of seeds,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 lehte
...nursing mould, The moistening current, and prolific14 rain. The kind, impartial care Of Nature naught disdains ; thoughtful to feed Her lowest sons, and clothe the coming year, From field to field, the feathered seeds she wings." THOMSON. 6. Birds, beasts, and insects aid in the dispersion of seeds,... | |
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In circle following circle, gathers round, To close the face of things. A fresher gale Begins to wave the wood, and stir the stream, Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn ; While the quail clamours for his running mate. Wide o'er the thistly lawn,... 
