 | John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...proteft, To you these plumbs belong ; Sweet is the fruit that you have peck'd, But sweeter far your song. Let then this league betwixt us made, Our mutual interests...gift of fruit and shade, Your songs be my reward. Vol. xm. TO A RED-BREAST. ___^^__^-^=— — BY DR. LANGHORNE. LITTLE bird, with bosom red, Welcome... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...friendship bribe! Come, feed without reserve. For yon these cherries T protect, To you these plums belong: Let then this league betwixt us made Our mutual interests...gift of fruit and shade; Your songs be my reward. ODE TO TRUTH. BY MASON. OAT, will no white-roh'd son of light, Swift darting from his heav'nly height,... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...protect, To you these plums belong ; Sweet is the fruit that you have peck'd, But sweeter far your song. Let then this league betwixt us made, Our mutual interests...gift of fruit and shade — Your songs be my reward. THE BEGGAR'S PETITION. [ANON.] PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Birds - 1815 - 170 pages
...have peck'd, But sweeter far your song. Let then this league, betwixt us made, Our mutual interest guard : Mine be the gift of fruit and shade, Your songs be my reward, Grates. rff Mr. dnst if at faart .rt.r/>;-rf-. VERSES addmscd to a Lady, aV/ose favourite Bird was.'almost... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...you have peck'd, But sweeter far your song. Let then this league betwixt us made Our mutual interest guard : Mine be the gift of fruit and shade, Your songs be my reward. ODE TO TRUTH. BY MASON. SA-V, will no white-robed son of light, Swift darting from his heavenly height,... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...protect; To you, these plums belong : Sweet is the fruit that you have peck'd ; But sweeter far your song. Let, then, this league betwixt us made ' ( Our mutual...gift of fruit and shade ; Your songs be my reward. , Both philosophers and physicians have prescribed Music as a powerful means of alleviating the sorrows... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...have peck'd, But sweeter far, your song. Let then this league, betwixt us made, Our mutual interest guard ; Mine be the gift of fruit and shade, Your songs be my reward. SOLITUDE. Pope. HAPPY the man whose wish and care, A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Literary and scientific class book, Author of - 1830 - 228 pages
...TO Sweet is the fruit that you have pecked, But sweeter far your song. Let then this league between us made, Our mutual interests guard, Mine be the gift of fruit and shade ; Your songs be my reward. MESS ON 48. Playing leith Fire-Jlrms. Frank, at different times, took some rides with his father. In... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...have pick'd ; But sweeter far your song. Let then this league, betwixt us made, Our mutual int'rest guard ; Mine be the gift of fruit and shade, Your songs be my reward. MAN'S VANITY AND LIFE. [JOHN CLARE.] MAN is an insect, life his cell, Nor lives he till death breaks... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1834 - 698 pages
...Graves:" of this poem the last stanza is, " Let then this league betwixt us made Our mutual imprests guard, Mine be the gift of fruit and shade ; Your songs be my reward."] The Sturm Petrel is one of those luckless birds which, having been once associated with superstitious... | |
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... loves his home. My trees for you, ye artless tribe, Shall store of fruit preserve ; Oh, let me thus your friendship bribe ! Come, feed without reserve. For you these cherries I protect, To you these plums belong ; Sweet is the fruit that you have... 
