 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
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...state) How rain 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,... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 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.... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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...through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 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 through the peopled air IN VEB. CONVENIUNT roseis suffusse risibus Horse, Veris honos, Paphise gratia prima Deae. Protinus... | |
 | Religion - 1842 - 1046 pages
...precept in a striking light. " It is noon," says the writer of prose. How says the poet the same thing 1 " Still is the toiling hand of care, The panting...busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Some lightly o'er the current skim,... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 514 pages
...precept in a striking light. " It is noon," says the writer of prose. How says the poet the same thing 1 " Still is the toiling hand of care, The panting...busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Some lightly o'er the current skim,... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 514 pages
...in the form of prose, is the poetry of the precept ; it is the same precept in a striking light. " Still is the toiling hand of care, The panting herds...busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the hopeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Some lightly o'er the current skim,... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 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 through the peopled air The husy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...state) How vain the ardour of the crowd. How low, how littie are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herds...repose: Yet hark, how through the peopled air The husy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, .6 And float... | |
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