The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers... The Retrospective Review.. - Página 312editado por - 1823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 páginas
...a child from the womb, like a ghost fron the tomb, I rise and upbuild it again. PERCY BY DRINKING. THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and r.re, With constant drinking, fresh and fair; SUMMER WINDS. The sea itself (which one would think Should... | |
| Charles Tovey - 1878 - 356 páginas
...dexter hand on his haunch abutting, Went the little man, Sir Ausbruch, strutting ! BROWNING. DRINKING. THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, Q The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair; The sea itself (which... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 páginas
...first of thee to sing. 1 Crashaw became a Roman Catholic, and died a canon of Loretto, 1650. DRINKING. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By its drunken fiery face no less) Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done, The moon and stars drink... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...Crashaw became a Roman Catholic, and died a canon of Lorettu, 1650. 3. \_A nacrer>ntiques."\ DRINKING. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By its drunken fiery face no less) Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done, The moon and stars drink... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 páginas
...himself, was yet the writer of this paraphrastic version of one of Anacreon's sparkling lyrics : — The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, * So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun — and one would guess, By his drunken, fiery face,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...Book U. MILTON. The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their bends in drops of rain. tau. LONGFELLOW. thy master missed it. Mark but my fall, and that that...ambition : By that sin fell the angels ; how can man Anacreontic,™*. A. COWLEY. When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 páginas
...Anacreontics ; Or some copicx of verxrs translated paraphraztically out of * Anacreoii ' — Drinking. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth, ant' are, With constant drinking, fresh and fo.ir. The sea itself , which one would think Should have... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...Iliad and the Odyssee Eise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLEKIDGE. DRINKING. THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...little need of drink) Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busie sun (and one would guess By 's drunken fiery face no less)... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...LL iv. 3. He that holds more wine than others can, I rather count a hogshead than a man. Randollih, The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...earth, and are. With constant drinking, fresh and fair. Anaercon (Cowley). Why should ev'ry ereature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why ? Anaercon... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...down And lie down. (1. 37-40) CenHV; FiBHP; NBLV; NOBL; OBTV ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667) Drinking 1 (1. 1—2) 2 Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal health goes round. Fill up the bowl, then,... | |
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