 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once; a cup and ball, Which babes...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And... | |
 | William Eastmead - 1824 - 536 pages
...stream," forcibly recal to the recollection, Cowper's beautiful lines on Yardley Oak : — Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball "Which babes might play...-with, and the thievish jay Seeking her food, with case might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing- down Thy yet close folded latitude... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 pages
...the offence by an apology : — you are a lady, and can excuse A BLUSH. 226 THE ACORN; AN APOLOGUE. " Thou wast a bauble once ; — a cup and ball, Which babes might play with : ****** Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root ; — and time has... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 pages
...gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. YAHDLEY OAK. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs And... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...Heaven, created thing adore, I might with reverence kneel, and worship thec. * • • * * Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might play...jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And all thine... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 326 pages
...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscrib'd, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, 'Which babes...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The Auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | Poetic gleanings - 1827 - 182 pages
...suffers wrong ; Gives Vice to bloom its little hour, But Virtue, late and long ! YARDLY OAK. BY COWPER. THOU wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might wish to play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish Jav, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin 'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscrib'd, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once, a cu p and ball, Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut, that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of houghs,... | |
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The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. 
