 O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring...  Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Page 286by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Full view - About this book
 | John Clare - Literary Collections - 1996 - 868 pages
...VI, ii. 5. 2 1 -2, and is quoted by Howitt on p. 111 to precede the month of May: O God! nu-thinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain 14 n. Cut away I5n. Cut away i. 234-5 The morning air is rich to meet 8n. Cut away i. 235-6 Hw glrs... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - Literary Criticism - 2007
...especially important, because it features Henry VI as a Spenserian author-figure, the shepherdking: 'O god! methinks it were a happy life / To be no better than a homely swain; / To sit upon a hill, as I do now, / To carve out dials quaintly, point by point' (3 Henry VI 2. 5.... | |
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