Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes in the east awaken? A fig, say I, for any streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser Mr. Gray has drawn, Who used to haste the dewy grass among, To meet the sun upon the... Littell's Living Age - 12. oldal1849Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 oldal
...smell of sweet herbs at the morning prime — Only lie long enough, and bed becomes A bed of time. Why from a comfortable pillow start, To see faint...fig, say I, for any streaky part, Excepting bacon ! It is to be feared there are many who practise what is thus jocularly expressed ; but it should never... | |
| Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 oldal
...grumbling for a season, quaintly bogs - Wherefore should miser rise before the hens Have laid their eggs. Why from a comfortable pillow start, To see faint flushes in the cast awaken ? A fig, say I, for any streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser, Mr. Grey has drawn,... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 oldal
...Besprinkled by the rosy-fingered girl ; What then, — if I prefer my pillow-beer To early pearl ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...the upland lawn : " Well, — he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their bit and sup ; But I'm no climbing... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 oldal
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? your hearts ; bas drawn, Who used to haste the dewy grass among, "To meet the sun upon the upland lawn," — Well,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1871 - 472 oldal
...for a reason, quaintly begs " Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ?" Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes in the east awaken 1 A fig, say I, for any streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser Mr. Gray has drawn, Who used... | |
| 1872 - 900 oldal
...say I, for any streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser Mr. Gray lias drawn, Who used to ha=te chanvomen such early hours agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their bit and sup ; But I 'm no climbing... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 oldal
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? ; charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their bit mid sup ; But I 'm no climbing... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 oldal
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...the upland lawn," — Well, — he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their bit and sup ; Bat I 'm no climbing... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 oldal
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes in the east awaken 1 A fig, say I, for any streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser Mr. Oray has drawn, Who used... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 oldal
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...used to haste the dewy grass among, "To meet the sun up01i the upland lawn," — Well, — he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps... | |
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