 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of care, The panting herds repose, The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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 gaily gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man :... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 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...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 :... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed 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." The poetry of noon is noon, in the circumstances which... | |
 | 1842 - 1046 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed 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." The poetry of noon is noon, in the circumstances which... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...hand of Care : The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how through the peopled air The husy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current ikim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to tha Bun. To Contemplation's soher eye Such... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 328 pages
...hand of Care : The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how through the peopled air The husy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, .6 And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...impious eagemeu began the war, Some more than common punishment prepare. Rove. Lucan. Phanalia, book vii. The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Gray. Ode on the Spring. There is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue, as that of some uncommon and grievous... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...peopled air The busy murmur glows ! 1 The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed2 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's3 soher eye, Such is the race of man ; And they that creep... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled aii 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 Such is the race... | |
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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... 
