 | Thomas Rhys Vickroy - 1894 - 296 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play? Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? XvIII. "You call them thieves and pillagers ; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play ? Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? " You call them thieves and pillagers ; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from... | |
 | Emma E. Page - 1897 - 292 Seiten
...gurdies play? Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? You call them thieves and pillagers; but know They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from the... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - 1900 - 112 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play 1 Is this more pleasant to you than the whirr Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little fieldfares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake?" I cannot omit the bees from those who reciprocate with us. They take the honey from our flowers, but... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 472 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play? Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? " You call them thieves and pillagers : but know They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play? Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? " You call them thieves and pillagers ; but know They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from... | |
 | Caroline Ruth Jackson, Amelia Crum "Mrs. L. S. Daughery. " Daugherty - 1905 - 434 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play ? Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake ? "You call them thieves and pillagers; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D. - 1905 - 778 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play ?i.(o Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake ? 'You call them thieves and pillagers; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play ?i4o Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundeOr twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? 'You call them thieves and pillagers; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1906 - 416 Seiten
...hurdy-gurdies play ? Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? " You call them thieves and pillagers ; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from... | |
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What ! would you rather see the incessant stir Of insects in the windrows of the hay, And hear the locust and the grasshopper Their melancholy hurdy-gurdies play? Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter... 
