 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: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ... - Page 67by William Cowper - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Heather Glen - 1983 - 420 pages
...their first publication, Hazlitt was to quote 'an exquisite piece of eloquence and poetry' from them: 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,... | |
 | Mary-Ann Constantine, Gerald Porter - 2003 - 288 pages
...Cowper was presenting the lacemaker (in a poem called 'Truth') as the type of the 'deserving poor': 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,... | |
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