 | Margaret Plues - 1863 - 438 pages
...tree. Cowper delineates the life of an Oak in a few touching lines : — " Thou wert a bauble once— a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and...thievish Jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn net that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs. Time... | |
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 pages
...10. Punctilious discrimination. LXXIIL THE FIRST CLINGS TO THE SECOND. " THOU wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | Beauties - 1866 - 310 pages
...Northampton. and Huntingdon as her dower." The poet also celebrates it in verse : Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes might play with, and the thievish jay Seeking her food, with ease might hnve purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs... | |
 | William Cowper - 1866 - 720 pages
...thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with; and the thievish isy, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing clovm... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...— only the hand of a master could make the composition what it is : — " Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Characteristics of the Poetry of Oowper. 595 Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 574 pages
...thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the...purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down • ThiR tree had been known by the name of Judith for many ages. Perhaps !t ro-' wired that name on... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1871 - 616 pages
...Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy...thine embryo vastness, at a gulp. But fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rains Beneath thy parent-tree mellowed the soil Designed thy cradle ; and a skipping... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1871 - 528 pages
...Cowper, if the poetical child of Dryden, was the poetical sire of Wordsworth. ' Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and...thievish jay. Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 264 pages
...shades — like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed — as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the...auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs, And all thine embryo vastness, at a gulp. * This tree had been known... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 pages
...shades, like Adam after tasto Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin 'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And... | |
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The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. 
