 ... love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies,— Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like...  All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal - Page 2281867Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 606 pages
...your damsel that walks in the rooming, Is shod like a mountaineer. True love is at home on a carpet, And mightily likes his ease — And true love has...fan of a lady, His foot's an invisible thing, And hi» arrow is tipp'd with a jewel And shot from a silver string. cissivs 72 THE BAPTISM. She stood... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...has an eye to a capon, And starves in your " shady trees." His wing is the fan of a lady, His foot 's an invisible thing, And his arrow is tipped with a jewel, And shot from a silver string. LESSON LXIII. THE PLOUGH. It is easy to find poems which the war spirit has inspired, but it is not... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1850 - 380 pages
...your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer. True love is at home on a carpet, And mightily likes his ease — And true love has...lady, His foot's an invisible thing, And his arrow is tipp'd with a jewel, And shot from a silver string. THE DECLARATION. 'TWAS late, and the gay company... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...love is at home on a carpet, And mightily likes his ease, And true love has an eye for a dinner, t>And starves beneath shady trees. His wing is the fan of a lady, His foot's an invisible thing, j^ And his arrow is tipped with a jewel, And shot from a silver string." These verses are highly characteristic... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 pages
...milkmaid shocks the graces, And simplicity talks of pies. ******* True love is at home on a carpet, : And mightily likes his ease, And true love has an eye for a dinner, IpAnd starves beneath shady trees. His wing is the fan of a lady, ,. His foot's an invisible thing,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...milkmaid shocks the graces, And simplicity talks of pies. ******* True love is at home on a carpet, ; And mightily likes his ease, And true love has an eye for a dinner, (F And starves beneath shady trees. His wing is the fan of a lady, His foot's an invisible thing, :... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...Nothing, in truth, ean harm us, whatever mis ehanees may happen. LongfeUow's Evangdine. True love is at home on a earpet, And mightily likes his ease, —...beneath shady trees. His wing is the fan of a lady, His foot 's an invisible thing, And his arrow is tipp'd with a jewel, And shot from a silver string. WiUis's... | |
 | 1855 - 624 pages
...a carpet, And mightily likes his ease, True Love has an eye for a capon, And would starve 'mid your shady trees ; His wing is the fan of a lady, His foot's an invisible thing, His arrow is tipped with a jewel, And shot from a silver string. COMMENT BY THE HON. RH WILDE. You... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 474 pages
...is at home on a carpet, And miphtilv likes his cose — And true love lias an eye for a dinner, Aud starves beneath shady trees. His wing is the fan of a lady, Ilis foot's an invisible thing. Aid his arrow is tipped with a jewel, And »hot from a silver string.... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - 700 pages
...your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer. True love is at home on a carpet, And mightily likes his ease— And true love has an...lady, His foot's an invisible thing, And his arrow is tipp'd with a jewel, And shot from a silver string. TO HELEN IN A HUFF. KAY, lady, one frown is enough... | |
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