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" The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never... "
The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan - Page 64
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"Under Green Leaves.": A Book of Rural Poems

Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...natural song — In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth. Leigh Hunt. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...done With his delights ; for, when tired out with fan, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never. On a lone winter...
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"Under Green Leaves.": A Book of Rural Poems

Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 120 pages
...natural song— In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth. Leigh Hunt. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds...hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the Grasshopper's—he takes the lead In summer luxury—he has never done With his delights; for, when...
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...despair, To frame her cloudy prison for the soul. T. Hood. CLII. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. HE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never : On a lone winter...
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The every-day book of natural history, by J.C.

James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...of its heat to the air immediately on the surface, and ' ' All the birds are faint with the hot smi, And hide in cooling trees, — a voice will run From...: That is the Grasshopper's. He takes the lead In simimer luxury ; he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun He rests at ease...
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The Book of the Sonnet, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 722 pages
...eyes " are from life, as may be seen by Titian's portrait of him. II. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE Poetry of Earth is never dead : When all the birds...done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The Poetry of Earth is ceasing never : On a lone winter...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...vision, or a waking dream ? Fled is that music — do I wake or sleep ? THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...done With his delights, for, when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never : On a lone winter...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...vision, or a waking dream ? Fled is that music—do I wake or sleep ? THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds...hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead : That is the grasshopper's—he takes the lead In summer luxury—he has never done With his delights, for, when...
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Woodland and Wild: A Selection of Descriptive Poetry

Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...natural song — In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth. Leigh Hunt. THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET. THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter...
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The Children's hour

1868 - 738 pages
...gentle air among the leaves, or the sighing of the long grass, as it bends before the soft wind : ' Poetry of earth is never dead.' ' When all the birds...done With his delights ; for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. ' Such is the pretty description of this dainty insect...
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...glowing hands O'er every hill that under heaven expands. 15 Ebenezer Elliot. cci THE POETRY OF EARTH The poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds...; That is the grasshopper's — he takes the lead 5 In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests...
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