 OBSERVE, when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky ; And then the dewy cordial gives To every thirsty plant that lives. The vapours, which at evening weep, Are beverage to the swelling deep ; And when the rosy sun appears, He drinks...  The American Whig Review - Page 4191852Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...dry and tame, where the subject was a moist one. Professor. Now let us hear the gifted Moore : — " Observe when mother earth is dry She drinks the droppings...cordial gives To every thirsty plant that lives. The vapours which at evening sweep, Are beverage to the swelling deep ; And when the rosy sun appears,... | |
 | Anacreon - Odes, Greek - 1800 - 304 pages
...ILyJapixov TO St juoi ZvyxtpoHTsef TIf To, Tpla TaUTa Kai Aiovu<rof f Kai aurof Epaif xaV ODE XXI. OBSERVE when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky ; And then the dewy cordial gives To ev'ry thirsty plant that lives. The commentators who have endeavoured to throw the chains of precision... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1803 - 614 pages
...solar beams. Jn drinking, then, since all agree, What friend can justly censure me?' P. 45. > Moore. ' Observe, when mother Earth is dry, She drinks the...cordial gives To every thirsty plant that lives. The vapours which at evening weep Are beverage to the swelling deep : And, when the rosy sun appears, •,... | |
 | 1804 - 552 pages
...is literally the material out of which the following beautiful workmanship has been fashion-* ed : * Observe, when mother earth is dry, She drinks the...cordial gives To every thirsty plant that lives. The vapours which at evening weep. Are beverage to the swelling deep. And when the rosy sun appears, He... | |
 | Anacreon - Greek poetry - 1804 - 194 pages
...as little sense as metre, are rooet probably the interpolation of the transcriber. ODE ODE XXI. , i, OBSERVE when mother earth is dry,. She drinks the droppings of the sky j And then the dewy cordial gives To ev'ry thirsty plant that lives. The The commentators who- have... | |
 | Anacreon - Greek poetry - 1810 - 198 pages
...to have as little sense as metie, are most probably the interpolation of the transcriber. ODE XXI. OBSERVE, when mother earth is dry, She drinks the...droppings of the sky ; And then the dewy cordial gives; To ev'ry thirsty plant that lives. , The The commentators who have endeavoured to throw the chains of... | |
 | Anacreon - 1820 - 196 pages
...to have as little seuse as metre, are most probably the interpolation of the transcriber. ODE XXI. OBSERVE when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky ; And then the dewy cordial gives To ev'ry thirsty plant that lives. The commentators who have endeavoured to throw the chaius of precision... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 376 pages
...sic imbrifer arcus Sic tellus pluvias sole perusta bibit. Sic bibit assidue fontes ct flumina Pontus. And then the dewy cordial gives To every thirsty plant that lives. The vapours, which at evening weep, Are beverage to the swelling deep ; And when the rosy sun appears,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 378 pages
...captive still would stay. " If this," he cries, " a bondage be, " Who could wish for liberty ?" ODE XXI * OBSERVE when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky ; Kou faQill WH(a%(tts Koti *UTtS Zfaf tua in litThese lines, which appear to me to have as little... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...would stay. M If till«,* he cri^, « a bondage be, Who could wish for liberty ?» ODK XXI.1 OBSIITI when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky; Hit metier in»», mrita mtmmy л lay, Та ramtom kcr t*tovtd ¿о«, tte. } Vena« that atfodaima... | |
| |
