 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
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 396 pàgines
...now, the flutterer springs From vein to vein with tickling wings. CHARLES ABRAHAM ELTON. OF 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) Drinks ten thousand... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 pàgines
...Epicurean animal !) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest. DRINKING. From An-acreon. 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, Drinks ten thousand... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...sighed, we wept: we never blushed before. Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromtcell. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and...earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. From Anacreon. Drinking. Why Should every creature drink but I ? Why, man of morals, tell me why ?... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pàgines
...fellowship in shame ; One drunkard loves another of the name. 1307 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv Sc. 3 The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...The plants suck in the earth, and are, With constant driuking, fresh and fair. 1308 Anacreon (Cowley) : Drinking Why should ev'ry creature drink but I?... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 518 pàgines
...a canon of Loretto, 1650. 3[Anacreontiques."] DRINKING. * \/ The plants suck in the earth, and are The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, /. , And drinks, and gapes for drink again, tA-^ With constant drinking fresh and fair. V/ / Should have but little need of drink, pW/ The sea... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pàgines
...delight, quite forgetful of the skeleton that stands there to scare him from his roses and his cups: , Kuck in the earth, and ure With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pàgines
...And men grow better as the world grows old. ELLA WHEELER. DRINKING. FROM THE GREEK OF ANACEEON. f I THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, -*- And drinks,...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... | |
 | Jacques Parmentier - 1887 - 364 pàgines
...Pourquoi done ne boirons-nous pas? Cowley translates and amplifies the little piece as follows : — 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, Drinks ten thousand rivers... | |
 | Duchess - 1887 - 344 pàgines
...drops that fling themselves heavily against the panes, and on the leaves and flowers outside ; while— The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. ' I cannot feel anything to be a pity to-day,' says Georgie. ' I can feel only a sense of freedom.... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1889 - 288 pàgines
...the lazy sluggard yawning lies Before thy threshold gaping for thy dole. Came, t'œlnm Britannicuin. The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again. Cowley, Anacreontics, ii. Thon, who gap'stfor my estate, draw near; For I would whisper somewhat In... | |
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