 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
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...more reverence than the swallow or martin are protected. Thomson thus sings of his annual visit : " The redbreast, 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 alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 738 pages
...methought, was dedicate, and ours. It scem'd, was all its beauty. To and fro GENT. MAO. VOL. VI. 4 I The Redbreast, 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 alights On the warm hearth, then hopping... | |
 | James Thomson - 1838 - 236 pages
...Stands covered 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,...On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is: 'Till, more familiar... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...hair worn tound the head, and looks very well. THE GARDEN. — JANUARY. • The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...of th" embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thicket leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man His annual visit. — — — — " THOMSON'S... | |
 | James Thomson - 1840 - 174 pages
...around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, 245 The red-breast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 250 On the warm -hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 274 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...of all his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tam'd by Iho cruel season, crowd around The winnowing slore, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar... | |
 | James Thomson - 1841 - 194 pages
...around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, 245 The red-breast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 850 Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then,... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1841 - 352 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 trusted... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - Seasons - 1842 - 378 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,...assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household-gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves... | |
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