 THE FARMER'S life displays in every part A moral lesson to the sensual heart. Though in the lap of Plenty, thoughtful still, He looks beyond the present good or ill; Nor estimates alone one blessing's worth, From changeful seasons, or capricious earth;...  The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem - Page 17by Robert Bloomfield - 1800 - 102 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Bloomfield - Farm life - 1801 - 390 pages
...Lalours of the larn. The gander. Night; a thunder s'rm. Harvest-home. Reflections, &c. SUMMER. ii. THE FARMER'S life displays in every part A moral lesson...thoughtful still, He looks beyond the present good or ill;Nor estimates alone one blessing's worth, From changeful seasons, or capricious earth ; But views... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...a ihuutler-siorin. Harvest-home. Relloctioua, Jcc. THE farmer's life displays in every part A mural lesson to the sensual heart. Though in the lap of...present hours, And looks for failures as he looks lor showers; For casual as for certain want prepares, And round his yard the recking haystack rears;... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...Night: a thunder-siorm. Harvest-home. Reflections, fcc. THE firmer's life displays in every part i us arm, inured to toils severe, Bnndish'd th* unconquer'd...Caledonian spear. The dreadful falchion of the hills fu ure with the present hours, And looks for failures as he looks for showers ; For casual as for certain... | |
 | Fashion - 514 pages
...stor'd — And fourscore ewes he fed, a sturdy team, And lowing kine that grazed beside the stream. The Farmer's life displays in every part A moral lesson to the sensual heart. Though in the hip of plenty, thoughtful still, He looks beyond the present good oar ill ; N.or estimates alone one... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...the harn.— The gander.— Night ; a thunder-storm. — Harvest home- —R'flections, tf-c, II. 1 HE FARMER'S life displays in every part A moral lesson...Though in the lap of plenty, thoughtful still, He looks heyond the present good or ill ; Nor estimates alone one hlessing's worth, From changeful seasons,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Ripening — Spamact — Tnxrli — The Sty-Lark — Reaping, ¿-c. — llarrat Field.} The fanner's ars, Sees but the dying blescing's worth, From changeful seasons, or capricious earth ! But views the future with the present... | |
 | Jonathan Hutchinson - Society of Friends - 1844 - 418 pages
...employment, of which perhaps few poetical lines are more justly descriptive than those which say " The farmer's life displays in every part A moral lesson to the sensual heart :" and may we not with equal truth add, spiritual instruction also to the well-disposed and attentive... | |
 | Shoemakers - 1849 - 356 pages
...ray ; No thankless glooms obtrude, nor cares annoy, Whilst the sweet theme is universal joy. SUMMER. THE farmer's life displays in every part A moral lesson to the seusual heart. Though in the lap of plenty, thoughtful still, He looks beyond the present good or ill... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...Dairynoid,4c. Labourers of the barn. The gander. Night: «thunder-storm. Harvest-home. Reflections, *c. ins, the sea, and the islands illuminated by the last...day; and, sitting down there, he proceeded with his H* looks beyond the present good or ill; From changeful • arth; But views the fu uie with the present... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1852 - 190 pages
...of the Barn. — The Gander. — Night. — A Thunder Storm. — Harvest-Home. — Reflections, gre. THE FARMER'S life displays in every part A moral lesson...! But views the future with the present hours, And looksfor failures as he looks for showers ; For casual as for certain want prepares, And round his... | |
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