 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length BasKS at the fire his...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end : Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, streteh'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, !y whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. 'ower'd cities please us then,6 And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...the corn That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end : Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch' d out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men ; Where... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...the corn, That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 pages
...night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh d the corn, That ten day-labourers could uot end : Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." R. 6 A changeling was a child taken or given in exchange ; it being a roguish custom of the fairies,... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...And, stretch' d out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; i- ยป L ALLEGBO And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first...lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the husy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, "With... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...shadowy flail hath thresh d the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length,...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Tower'd cities please us then And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rors could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then ; And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
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And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. 
