| John S. Skinner, Editor - 1823 - 448 Seiten
...hall, The lamps suspended from the cheerful wall, Brown com fed nymphs and strong hard-handed beaux, The laws of Husking every wight can tell ; And sure...For each red ear a general kiss he gains, With each smut ear she smuts the luckless swains; But when to some sweet maid a prize is cast, Red as her lips,... | |
| Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 Seiten
...seats, the solid mass attack, The dry husks rustle, and the corn-cobs crack,* The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips...keeps so well : — For each red ear, a general kiss lie gains, With each smut-ear he soils the luckless swains ; But when to some sweet maid the prize... | |
| Horace Smith - 1832 - 382 Seiten
...seats, the solid mass attack, The dry husks rustle, and the corn-cobs crack,* The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips...For each red ear, a general kiss he gains, With each sjnut-earlie soils the luckless swains; But when to some sweet maid the prize is cast, Red as her lips,... | |
| Horace Smith - 1833 - 382 Seiten
...seats, the solid inasw attack, The dry husks rustle, and the corn-cobs crack,* The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips...swains ; But when to some sweet maid the prize is cast, Red as her lips, and taper as her waist, She walks the rounds, and culls one favoured beau, Who leaps... | |
| Horace Smith - 1836 - 372 Seiten
...the laugh, alternate notes resound, And toe sweet cider trips in silence round. The laws of Imsling every wight can tell, And sure no laws he ever keeps...swains ; But when to some sweet maid the prize is cast, Red as her lips, and taper as her waist, She walks the rounds, and cults one favoured beau, Who leaps... | |
| Joel Barlow - 1838 - 24 Seiten
...their seats, the solid mass attack; The dry husks rustle, and the corn-cobs crack; The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips...silence round. The laws of husking every wight can tejl; And sure no laws he ever keeps so well: For each red ear a general kiss he gains, With each smut... | |
| 1839 - 584 Seiten
...seats, the solid mass attack ; The dry husks rustle, and t lie corn-cobs crack ; The soBg, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips...For each red ear a general kiss he gains, With each smut ear she smut* the luckless swains; Bat when to some sweet maid a prize is cast, Red as her lips,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 328 Seiten
...seats, the solid mass attack ; The dry husks rustle, and the corncobs crack ; The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips...For each red ear a general kiss he gains, With each smut ear he smuts the luckless swains ; But when to some sweet maid a prize is cast, Red as her lips... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 Seiten
...scats, the solid mass attack ; The dry husks rustie, and the corncobs crack ; The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips...For each red ear a general kiss he gains, With each smut car he smuts the luckless swains ; 28 But when to some sweet maid a prize is cast, Red as her... | |
| 1847 - 368 Seiten
...seats, the solid mass attack, The dry husks rustic, and the cnrn-r.obs cracki* The son 1:, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips in silence round. The laws of husktog every wight can tell, And sure no laws he ever ki:cps so well : — • For each red ear, a... | |
| |