| Saturday night - 1824 - 968 Seiten
...him at night-time, and they suit them still better than his English ones. Their lights the glow-worms lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow, Like the sparks of fire befriend thee. It may not be generally known that the male spider is supplied with... | |
| 1824 - 486 Seiten
...him at night-time, and they suit them still better than his English ones. Their lights the glow-worms lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow, lake the sparks of fire befriend thee. It may not be generally known that the male spider is supplied... | |
| Cupid - 1826 - 252 Seiten
...hand, being led round, by two ladies, into her presence chamber. THE NIGHT PIECE, TO JULIA. BY HERKICK. Her eyes, the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars...! And the Elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee! . No Will-o'-th'-Wisp, mis-light thee ; Nor snake or slow-worm bite... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 Seiten
...ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime. You may for ever tarry. THE NIGHTLY CHARM. HER eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars...; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No Will o' th' Wisp mislight thee ; Nor snake nor slow-worm bite... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 Seiten
...into another strain, and with a charming air of gallantry, gave Herrick's " Night Piece to Julia:" Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars...thee, And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No Will o' th' Wisp mislight thee ; Nor snake or glow-worm bite... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 Seiten
...first couplet, is the same as the other common measure of Anacreon : — Their eyes the glow worms lend thee. The shooting stars attend thee, And the elves also Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of are, befriend thee. He ge mclaina pine!, I'm. i de dendre auten, Pinei thalavsa d'auras,... | |
| 1839 - 56 Seiten
...acceptable to every lover ol the ideal and the beautiful. EH c. THE NIGHT PIECE, TO JULIA. BY HEBBICK. Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee. The shooting stars...; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No Will-o,-th,- Wisp mis-light thee — No snake or slow- worm bite... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again. THE NIGHT-PIECE, TO JULIA. HER eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars...And the elves also, - Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No Will o' th' Wisp mislight thee ; Nor snake or slow- worm bite... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 Seiten
...summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again. THE NIGHT-PIECE.— TO JULIA. y Our conceal'd solemnity. Come, knit hands, and beat...In a light fantastic round. The Measure. Break of the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No Will o' th' Wisp mislight thee ; Nor snake or slow-worm bite... | |
| Martingale - 1843 - 314 Seiten
...and young. Who, indeed, would not, under these circumstances, exclaim with the poet— " Her light the glow-worm lend thee; The shooting stars attend...little eyes glow Like sparks of fire, befriend thee !"* Or exclaim, too, in the somewhat quaint words of the gentle Surrey,— "How soone aloke will print... | |
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