Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying round and small birds how they fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn... Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature - Page 180by James Anderson - 1803Full view - About this book
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 320 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes outstretcht, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn ; And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their pains, when earth... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 316 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes outstretcht, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...they fare, When mother Autumn fills their beaks with Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn ; And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1819 - 426 pages
...contemplation of the poet and the philosopher. How pleasant is it, , Sometimes outstretched in very idleness, To view the leaves (thin dancers upon air) Go eddying...'fare. When mother AUTUMN fills their beaks with corn' Filched from careless Amalthea's horn; And how the woods, berries and worms provide (Without their... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes oulstretcht, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn: And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their pains, when earth... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes outstretch!, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...they fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beaks with Cora. Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn : And how the woods berries and worms provide Without... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes outstretch!, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...birds, how they fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beak« with com, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn : And how the woods berries and worms provide... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...If, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, l<o eddying round ; and small Uirds, how they fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn : And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their pains, when earth... | |
| William Hazlitt - Art - 1824 - 210 pages
...lovers sleep. Sometimes ontstretcht, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying...fare, When Mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filcb'd from the careless Amalthea's horn : And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...lovers sleep, Sometimes outstretcht, in very idleness, Naught doing, saying little, thinking less, — thnt heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat ; And fa»e. When moiher Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Araalthea's horn ;... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...lorers sleep. Sometimes outstretch!, in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air. Go eddying round ; and small birds, how tliey f ir, When mother Autumn fUU their beaks wilk сего, Filrh'd from the careless Araaiilica's... | |
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