 The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.  Recollections - Page 57by Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...much the appearance of a Concetto, though it expressed his meaning better than the present reading. Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...enough to be distinguished. 111 Variation:—How low, how indigent the Proud; How little are the Great. Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how'thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...it stood in Dodsley's Miscellany, wherein it was first published. The author corrected it on acStill is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud! How indigent the great! Still is the toiling hand of Care, The panting herds repose, Yet hark ! how thro' the peopled lir The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honey'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the Great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds...busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...•; . How vain the ardor of the crown, How low, hew little are the proud, How indigent the great ! il'd. This |x:ncil take, (she said), whose colors...: • Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! wjjig, Hager to taste the honey'd spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, Howlow, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet, hark, how thro' the peopled air 'I!.'- busy murmur glowi 1 The insect youth are on the wing, Eager tu taste the... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the prond ! How indigent the great! Still is the toiling hand of Care, The panting herds repose, Yet hark ! how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...little are the proud. How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herd's repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The...busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid thfi liquid noun !: Some lightly o'er the current... | |
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