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" THE poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never... "
Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight - Page 251
by Half hours - 1856
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"Under Green Leaves.": A Book of Rural Poems

Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights ; for, when tired out with fan, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry...half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. John Keats. TO A BEE. THOU wert out betimes, thou busy, busy Bee ! On the meadow, with dew so gray,...
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...despair, To frame her cloudy prison for the soul. T. Hood. CLII. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. HE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. J.Keats. CLIIL THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. AINT Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices...
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The Book of the Sonnet, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 722 pages
...eyes " are from life, as may be seen by Titian's portrait of him. II. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE Poetry of Earth is never dead : When all the birds...half lost The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. HI. ON READING "THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF" OF CHAUCER. THIS pleasant tale is like a little copse, The...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...vision, or a waking dream ? Fled is that music — do I wake or sleep ? THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. ALARIC ALEXANDER WATTS. Born, 1797; Died, 1864. TO A CHILD, AFTER AN INTERVAL OF ABSENCE. I MISS thee...
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The Book of the Sonnet, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 372 pages
...eyes " are from life, as may be seen by Titian's portrait of him. II. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE Poetry of Earth is never dead : When all the birds...Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills III. ON READING "THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF" OF CHAUCER. THIS pleasant tale is like a little copse, The...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...hedge about the new-mown mead : That is the grasshopper's—he takes the lead In summer luxury—he has never done With his delights, for, when tired...Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills ALARIC ALEXANDER WATTS. Born, 1797 ; Died, 1864. TO A CHILD, AFTER AN INTERVAL OF ABSENCE. I MISS thee...
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Woodland and Wild: A Selection of Descriptive Poetry

Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...natural song — In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth. Leigh Hunt. THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. /. Keats. THE BEE. "« HOU wert out betimes, thou busy, busy bee ! As abroad I took my early way, „ Before...
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never : On a lone winter evening, when the frost 10 Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills...half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. John Keats. ecu SONNET. Lady, I bid thee to a sunny dome, Ringing with echoes of Italian song : Henceforth...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 17-18

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1871 - 530 pages
...Lets not even the feeblest fall. — From the Danish of Odtlenschlager. THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...grasshopper's among some grassy hills. — KEATS. ON THE SAME. GREEN little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June ;...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 18

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 268 pages
...Lets not even the feeblest fall. — From the Danish of OMenschlager. THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...grasshopper's among some grassy hills. — KEATS. ON THE SAME. GREEN little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June ;...
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