Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song; For 'twas the... Poems - Pagina 327di William Cowper - 1788Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1832 - 406 pagine
...shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark , So, stooping from the hawthorn top, Vie thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent:— Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, AŤ much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
| Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 pagine
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his...you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pagine
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent, — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
| Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 pagine
...something shining in the dark, And knew the Glow-worm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn-top, He thought to put him in his crop; The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent: — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pagine
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
| 1836 - 496 pagine
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark \ So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm. aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — " Did you adnure my lamp," quoth he " As much as I your minstrelsey,... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pagine
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 394 pagine
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the Glow-worm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop ; The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent. — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
| 1836 - 496 pagine
...down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm. aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — ' Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsey, \ ou would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 396 pagine
...down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop ; The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent. — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song, For 'twas the self-same... | |
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