 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...upon You, and mighty Oberon ; That your plenty last, till when I return your alms again ! CXCI1. UPON A CHILD. «. HERE a pretty baby lies, Sung asleep with lullabies ; Pray be silent, and not stir Th' easy earth that covers her. CXC11I. FAREWELL FROST, OR WELCOME THE SPRING. FLED are the frosts, and... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 346 pages
...things have an ending day ; And when once the work is done, Fates revolve no flax th'ave spun. UPON A CHILD. • HERE a pretty baby lies Sung asleep with lullabies ; Pray be silent, and not stirre Th' easie earth that covers her. PAINTING SOMETIMES PERMITTED. IF Nature do deny Colours, let... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1825 - 348 pages
...things have an ending day ; And when once the work is done, Fates revolve no flax th'ave spun. UPON A CHILD. HERE a pretty baby lies Sung asleep with lullabies ; Pray be silent, and not stirre Th' easie earth that covers her. PAINTING SOMETIMES PERMITTED. IF Nature do deny Colours, let... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...Prudence Baldwin, once my maid; From whose happy spark here let Spring the purple violet. HERRICK. ON A CHILD. HERE a pretty baby lies, Sung asleep with lullabies ; Pray be silent, and not stir The easy earth that covers her. HERRICK. ON SIR WILLAM SKIPWITH. To frame a man, who in those gifts... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Greece - 1844 - 1382 pages
...churchyard of Newport, in Monmouthshire, the following epitaph, in which this idea is clearly embodied : Here a pretty baby lies, Sung asleep with lullabies ; Pray be silent, and not stir The easy earth that covers her. 1 Among the Mohammedans of " people uttering the most doleful Persia... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 pages
...Back to come and make no stay, So we keep, till her return Here, her ashes, or her urn, L XXXIX. UPON A CHILD. Here a pretty baby lies Sung asleep with lullabies ; Pray be silent, and not stir The easy earth that covers her. XC. UPON A WIFE THAT DIED MAD WITH JEALOUSY. In this little vault she... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1856 - 338 pages
...things have an ending day ; And when once the work is done, Fates revolve no flax th'ave spun. UPON A CHILD. HERE a pretty baby lies Sung asleep with lullabies : Pray be silent, and not stirre Th' easie earth that covers her. PAINTING SOMETIMES PERMITTED. IP nature do deny Colours, let... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1856 - 336 pages
...things have an ending day ; And when once the work is done, Fates revolve no flax th'ave spun. UPON A CHILD. HERE a pretty baby lies Sung asleep with lullabies : Pray be silent, and not stirre Th' easie earth that covers her. PAINTING SOMETIMES PERMITTED. IF nature do deny Colours, let... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...rich, — and wealth may bow To greatness it can cherish, — not create. CHABLES SWAIN. EPITAPH ON A CHILD. Here a pretty baby lies Sung asleep with lullabies ; Pray be silent, and not stir The easy earth that covers her. HEBBICK. Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1859 - 660 pages
...things have an ending day ; And when once the work is done, Fates revolve no flax th'ave spun. UPON A CHILD. HERE a pretty baby lies Sung asleep with lullabies; Pray be silent, and not stirre Th' easie earth that covers her. PAINTING SOMETIMES PERMITTED. IF Nature do deny Colours, let... | |
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