 | Picture book - 1859 - 156 pàgines
...When the sun shines, the bees are busy among the flowers. As Susan looks at them, she says— How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the day, From eveiy opening flower. In works of labour or of skill, I must be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief... | |
 | Edward Fitch Underhill, Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1859 - 350 pàgines
...lateness of the hour, until he had put ice into their boot-legs and shirt-bosoms. in nn How doih the litUe busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening _ . nine o'clock one evening, the members of the club had casually convened in tho club-room,... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pàgines
...enclosure. — Paley. 3. Against Idleness and Mischief. (To be read with simplicity of tone.) 1. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flow'r ! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours... | |
 | 1860 - 138 pàgines
...all the rest ; Then let us active be and true, • And do our little best. 167. Industry. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! How skillfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1860 - 416 pàgines
...incoherency, imitating her mistress, repeated the first words her memory supplied her with — ' " How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day from every opening flower." ' Poor things, it was evident what their object was, but equally so that they were... | |
 | Little poems - 1860 - 160 pàgines
...Winter's ear How widely wept, for oh ! how dear The lovely things he could condemn ! BUSY BEE. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads the wax, In works of labour... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 468 pàgines
...who have been selected to enjoy it. Jane, 1848 THE OAK OPENINGS. CHAPTER I. How doth the little lusy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. Watts' Hymns for Children. WE have heard of those who fancied that they beheld a signal... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1860 - 132 pàgines
...ddlh the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads her wax! t And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. 3. In works of labor, or... | |
 | David Caughie - 1861 - 330 pàgines
...obtain an entrance into it? By Jesus Christ. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. (Tune—"Piety.") How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And...gather honey all the day From every op'ning flower. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1861 - 710 pàgines
...the lessons afforded to us by the bees 1 Joseph. — They remind me of Dr. Watts' hymn — " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower." Nancy. — They, in fact, use the gifts which their Maker and ours has given them,... | |
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower... 
