 Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of th...  Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson - Page 447edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth: then hopping... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Stands covered oVrwith snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowl* of heaven, Tamed the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thoray thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
 | E. W - 1831 - 100 pages
...before the next winter. But you mentioned some lines about the robin, pray repeat them to me. Hosa— The Red-breast, sacred to the household Gods, Wisely...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk. alight On the warm hearth, then, hopping... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
 | Alexander Spencer - 1831 - 166 pages
...and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of Man— The red-breast, heedful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...can procure their food : let one of Scotland's sweetest poets answer us. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Birds - 1835 - 496 pages
...such as they saw, especially as to its influence upon the Redbreast : — " The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 pages
...such as they saw, especially as to its influence upon the Redbreast : — " The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...Stands covered o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toils. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
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