 The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers...  Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of Milton - Page 71by Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 118 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...Crashaw became a Roman Catholic, and died a canon of Lorettu, 1650. 3. \_A nacrer>ntiques."\ DRINKING. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By its drunken fiery face no less) Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done, The moon and stars drink... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...himself, was yet the writer of this paraphrastic version of one of Anacreon's sparkling lyrics : — The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, * So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun — and one would guess, By his drunken, fiery face,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1126 pages
...Book U. MILTON. The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their bends in drops of rain. tau. LONGFELLOW. thy master missed it. Mark but my fall, and that that...ambition : By that sin fell the angels ; how can man Anacreontic,™*. A. COWLEY. When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...Anacreontics ; Or some copicx of verxrs translated paraphraztically out of * Anacreoii ' — Drinking. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth, ant' are, With constant drinking, fresh and fo.ir. The sea itself , which one would think Should have... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Iliad and the Odyssee Eise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLEKIDGE. DRINKING. THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...little need of drink) Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busie sun (and one would guess By 's drunken fiery face no less)... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...LL iv. 3. He that holds more wine than others can, I rather count a hogshead than a man. Randollih, The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...earth, and are. With constant drinking, fresh and fair. Anaercon (Cowley). Why should ev'ry ereature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why ? Anaercon... | |
 | Margaret Wolfe Hungerford - 1881 - 296 pages
...drops that fling themselves heavily against the panes, and on the leaves and flowers outside; while—- The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. . *> , " I cannot feel anything to be a pity .today," says Georgie. "I can feel only a sense of freedom.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 522 pages
...1 Cur haw became a Roman Catholic, and died a canon of Loretto, ^650, 3\Anaer cnntiques.] DRINKING. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By its drunken fiery face no less) Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done, The moon and stars drink... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...down And lie down. (1. 37-40) CenHV; FiBHP; NBLV; NOBL; OBTV ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667) Drinking 1 (1. 1—2) 2 Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal health goes round. Fill up the bowl, then,... | |
 | 1997 - 166 pages
...sit With opening and shutting wings. Translated by FRANK RUSSELL ANACREONTEA 6TH CENTURY BC Drinking The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and...little need of drink) Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy Sun (and one would guess By's drunken fiery face no less)... | |
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