 Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket...  Poems - Page 89by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...on every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath. And smother'd in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content thongh mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...His principal works are the Task, and other moral poems; antl a valuable translation of Homer. 3 Ye* Cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...on every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 pages
...frankincense on ev'ry side, He begs their flattery with his latest breatb, And smother'd in't at last, is prais'd to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And, smother'd in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 222 pages
...honour, and immortality'.' It' an original of Cowper-s picture. ' '.'~ir --*'£vg • •i. ;.i,' :iil) Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not gay*, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day... | |
 | 1837 - 496 pages
...every side : He begs their flattery with his latest breath , And smothered by it at last is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content, though mean and cheerful, if not Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...frankincense on ev'ry side. He begs their flatt'ry with his latest breath, And smother'd in't at last, is prais'd to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 470 pages
...frankincense on ev'ry side. He begs their flatt'ry with his latest breath, And smother'd in't at last, is prais'd to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd in't at last, is praised to death. You cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, cheerful if not gay, Shufiling her threads about the livelong day, Just... | |
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