 Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song; For 'twas the...  Poems - Seite 282von William Cowper - 1800Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Emma J. Todd - 1896 - 522 Seiten
...something shining in the dark ? And knew the glowworm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn-top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his mtent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : "' Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your... | |
 | Frank D. Rogers - 1897 - 296 Seiten
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — " Did you admire my lamp, " quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Frank D. Rogers - 1897 - 296 Seiten
...down from hawthorn top He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — " Did you admire my lamp, " quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same... | |
 | Edmund Stanley, Albert Reynolds Taylor - 1898 - 222 Seiten
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : "Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, "As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 586 Seiten
...down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, "As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same... | |
 | 1898 - 344 Seiten
...something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn-top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, "As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | 1899 - 450 Seiten
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the Glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent: " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 Seiten
...A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; VOL. VII.— 3 So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, ,, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, "As much as I your... | |
 | 1917 - 456 Seiten
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the Glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 Seiten
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; 10 So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — "Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, 15 "As much as I your... | |
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