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 - Page 327by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
| 1832 - 406 pages
...shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark , So, stooping from the hawthorn top, Vie 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, AĞ much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
| Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 pages
...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...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...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,... | |
| Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 pages
...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 - 1835 - 406 pages
...upon the ground, A 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,... | |
| 1836 - 496 pages
...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 adnure my lamp," quoth he " As much as I your minstrelsey,... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...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 - 1836 - 394 pages
...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,... | |
| 1836 - 496 pages
...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 minstrelsey, \ ou would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 396 pages
...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... | |
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