 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...plies its busy task, 150 The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn Unfolds its bosom, buds and leaves and sprigs...gracefully disposed, Follow the nimble finger of the fair, 155 A wreath that cannot fade, of flowers that blow With most success when all besides decay. The poet's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 760 pages
...pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, * A noted conjuror of the der. Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom : buds, and leaves, and sprigs,...gracefully disposed, Follow the nimble finger of the fuir ; A wreath, that cannot fade, of flowers, that blow With most success when all besides decay.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves, and sprigs,...nimble finger of the fair ; A wreath that cannot fade, of flowers, that blow With most success when all besides decay. The poet's or historian's page by one... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...plies its busy task ; The pattern grows, the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the suowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves, and sprigs, And curling tendrils, gracefully dispos'd, Follow the nimble finger of the fair ; A wreath, that cannot fade, of flow'rs, that blow... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1856 - 430 pages
...plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves, and sprigs,...nimble finger of the fair ; A wreath, that cannot fade, of flowers that blow With most success when all besides decay. The poet's or historian's page by one... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...plies its busy task, 150 The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves, and sprigs, And curling tendrils, gracefully disposed, 139—40. / crown thee, etc. : Says Tuckerman (in his ' Thoughts on the Poets') : " Even winter was... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1856 - 468 pages
...plies its busy task, 150 The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves, and sprigs, And curling tendrils, gracefully disposed, 139-40. / crown thee, <fec. : Says Tuckerman (in his 'Thoughts on the Poets') : " Even winter was endeared... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...themselves, and quake: The pattern grows, the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves, and sprigs, And curling tendrils, gracefully dispos'd, Follow the nimble finger of the fair; A wreath, that cannot fade, of flow'rs, that blow With... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom: buds, and leaves, and sprigs,...nimble finger of the fair; A wreath, that cannot fade, of flowers that blow With most success when all besides decay. The poet's or historian's page by one... | |
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The silent circle fan themselves, and quake: But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted... 
