NOT for the promise of the labour'd field, Not for the good the yellow harvests yield, I bend at Ceres' shrine ; For dull to humid eyes appear The golden glories of the year ; Alas ! a melancholy worship's mine ! I hail the goddess for her scarlet flower.... The Belfast Monthly Magazine - Page 3931811Full view - About this book
| Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 492 pages
...disaffected insurgents at Antrim, in Ireland. " ODE TO THE POPPY. " Not for the promise of the labour'd field, Not for the good the yellow harvests yield,...The golden glories of the year; Alas ! a melancholy worship 's mine: I hail the goddess for her scarlet flow'r ! Thou brilliant weed That dost so far exceed... | |
| Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 544 pages
...her." HENRIETTA BOYLE, LADY o'NEIL. 2QQ " O»B TO TH« iFOWY. " Not for the promise of the labour'd field, Not for the good the yellow harvests yield,...to humid eyes appear The golden glories of the year j Alas ! a melancholy worship 's mine : I hail the goddess for her scarlet flow'r ! Thou brilliant... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 456 pages
...Taubenlocher, or " pigeon holes." POETRY. ODE TO THE POPPY.« [By Mrs. Not for the promise of the laboured field, Not for the good the yellow harvests yield,...goddess for her scarlet flower ! Thou brilliant weed, Thou dost so far exceed The richest gifts gay Flora can bestow; Heedless I passed thee, in life's morning... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1810 - 780 pages
...field. Not for the good the yeltow harvests yield, 1 bend to Ceres' «hrine ; For dull to humid pyes appear The golden glories of the year; Alas ! —...scarlet flower ! Thou brilliant weed, That dost so far exeeed The richest gifts £av Flora can bestow 5 Heedless I pass'd thce in life's morning . hour (Thou... | |
| 1813 - 458 pages
...name. SELECTED POETRT. ODE TO THE POPPY. BY TUB Hon. MRS. O'NiEL. Not for the promise of the laboured field, Not for the good the yellow harvests yield,...the year • Alas ! a melancholy worship's mine ! I hiil the Goddess for her scarlet flower ! Thou brilliant weed, That dost so far exceed The richest... | |
| 1819 - 552 pages
...ft. ODE TO THE POPPT . *. By Mrs. Male. NOT for the promise of the labour'd field, Not for the gold the yellow harvests yield, I bend at Ceres' shrine!...of the year! Alas! a melancholy worship's mine! I woo the Goddess for her scarlet Bower, Thou brilliant weed, That dost so far exceed The richest gifts... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 888 pages
...Smith. NOT for the promise of the labour'd field, .., Not for the good the yellow harvests yield, 1 bend at Ceres' shrine; For, dull to humid eyes appear...worship's mine ! I hail the goddess for her scarlet flow'r ! Thou brilliant weed, , That dost so far exceed :' * The richest gifts gny Flora can bestow... | |
| Ireland - 1821 - 518 pages
...THE POPPY Not for the promise of the labour'd field, Not for the good the yellow harvesti yield, 1 bend at Ceres' shrine ; For dull to humid eyes appear...worship's mine : I hail the goddess for her scarlet flow'r! Thou brilliant weed, That dost so far exceed The richest gifts gay Flora can bestow, Heedless... | |
| Ireland - 1821 - 508 pages
...Charlotte Smith; for a specimen of which we insert her ODE TO THE POPPY Not for the promise of the labour'd field, Not for the good the yellow harvests yield, I bend at Ceres' shrine ; For dnll to humid eyes appear The golden glories of the year ; Alas ! a melancholy worship's mine : I hail... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...Enshroud me far from men, in deep repose. BAMPFYLDE. TO THE POPPY. t , Nor for the promise of the labour'd field, Not for the good the yellow harvests yield,...brilliant weed That dost so far exceed The richest gifts gay Flora can bestow, Heedless I pass'd thee in Life's morning hour (Thou comforter of woe),... | |
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