 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...playing," bear " buxom health" and joyousness on their wings. The birds sing their sweetest notes. The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon. From the west as it wantonly blows, Fond Zephyr caresses the vine ; The bee steals a kiss from the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...buxom health" and joyousness on their wings. The birds sing their sweetest notes. The insect youth arc on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon. The early flowers, " the yellow cowslip and the pale primrose," decorate the surface of the. earth.... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...of Care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye And they that... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...Aurora playing, bear ' buxon health' and joyousness on their wings. The birds sing their sweetest notes. The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon. The early flowers, ' the yellow cowslip and the pale primrose,' decorate the surface of the earth.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honey'd spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...they do not afford sufficient authority for the practice, at least shew that it is not a recent one. And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. 30 To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 858 pages
...hand of care; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some slow, their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Snch is the race... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring,...Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gayly gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man :... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmar glows t The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyM spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick-glancing to the Sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man :... | |
 | John Cole - 1827 - 166 pages
...hand of care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick-glancirg to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man;... | |
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To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay... 
