 The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers...  A Summer in a Cañon: A California Story - Pàgina 268per Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1889 - 272 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 pàgines
...nothing crave, Let me alive my Pleasures have; AH are Stpicks in the Grave. Cowl. The thirfty Earth foaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again. The Plants fuck in the Earth, and are By conftant Drinking, freih and fair : The Sea it ft: If, which one would... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 230 pàgines
...numbers, mighty things ; Love tunes my heart juft to my firings. II. DRINKING. THE thirfty earth {oaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants fuck in the earth, and are, With conftant drinking, frefh and fair. The fea itfelf, which, one would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 378 pàgines
...numbers, mighty things ! Love tunes my heart juA to my firings. II. DRINKING. THE thirfty earth foaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants fuck-in the earth, and are With conftant drinking frefh and fair; The fea itfelf (which one would think... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 296 pàgines
...mighty things ! Love tunes my heart jufl to my firings. 1 I I II. DRINKING. THE thirfty earth fbaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants fuck-in the earth, and are With conftant drinking frefh and fair; The fea itfelf (which one would think... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pàgines
...numbers, mighty things ; Love tunes my heart juft to my firings. II. DrixUng. Tm thirfty earth foak» up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants fuck in the earth, and are With conftant drinking frefh and fair. The fca itfelf, which one would think... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pàgines
...could reach the condensation and beauty of the Greek, just seven lines?* " The thirsty earth drinks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again. The plants suck iu the earth, and are By constant drinking fresh and fair : The sea itself, which one should think... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pàgines
...kings ! And mighty numbers, mighty things ! Love tunes my heart just to my strings. . II*. DRINKING. THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again* The plants suck-in the earth, and are* r>;. With constant drinking fresh and fair j The sea itself (which one... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pàgines
...farewell, kings ! And mighty numbers, mighty things I Love tunes my heart just to my strings. DRINKING. THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck-in the earth, and are 'With constant drinking fresh and fair ; The sea itself (which one would... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pàgines
...unbends: I play, . Gamesome with the young and gay. * 1 HE thirsty earth drinks up the rain, And (hirsts, and gapes for drink again ; The plants suck in the...earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. * Tbii long in written in the person of Anacreon, the form •f one of whose odei it copies, and whose... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pàgines
...impulses of an eager and inexhaustible feeling of delight. Here are some of them : — DRINKING. " The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, See his Lives of the British... | |
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